Wolf child

Author: Guo Xuebo
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: Recently, a writer named Guo Xuebo has emerged from the Horqin Desert in Inner Mongolia, specializing in stories about humans and nature, as well as the wild desert. He presents readers with a fresh and thought-provoking reading world. — (France) Europe Times Guo Xuebo's novels showcase the captivating landscapes of the Horqin grassland desert, written with deep love for his homeland, revealing the historical depth and inner sorrow of its culture. Especially through the relationship between humans and animals, he portrays the mystical and enigmatic cultural atmosphere of the land. Reading his works is an exhilarating and satisfying spiritual journey. — Professor Chen Xiaoming, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University
Guo Xuebo's new works carry the vastness and depth of the grassland, expressing on a higher level the intertwined lives of humans and nature. Guo Xuebo is a child of the desert. His works are like a tribute to his father, dedicated to the Mongolian grasslands and the desert. — Cui Daoyi, former Executive Deputy Editor of People's Literature
Let’s not even mention how familiar Guo Xuebo is with wolves and dogs. Just his keen observation and understanding of their habits are already astonishing. He not only portrays the strength, courage, ferocity, wildness, fierceness, ruthlessness, cruelty, and cunning of animals but also their kindness, family bonds, intelligence, alertness, resilience, and the spirit of desperate revenge. — Yan Gang, renowned critic and former Editor-in-Chief of China Culture News
I grew up surrounded by the howls of wolves and foxes. As a child, I often tended cattle and sheep in the wilderness and frequently encountered wolves and foxes. Once, I came face to face with a wolf in a grassy thicket. My neighbor, an elderly man who had dedicated his life to hunting foxes, was pursuing an elderly white fox. When he fired his gun, for some reason, the barrel exploded, blinding him. His home was also destroyed by a fire, and from then on, he gave up hunting foxes. — Guo Xuebo, A Desert Singer Unwavering in His
Many years have passed. Every time I return to my hometown from the city and sit on the sand dunes by the river, I think of my wolf-child brother, Xiaolong, and the and its family.
— Author’s Preface
In a tragic hunt for a wolf pack, I rescued a tiny wolf cub. The mother wolf snatched my brother, Xiaolong. Xiaolong grew up drinking wolf milk, becoming a wolf-child who lived like a wild beast. The little wolf cub I raised at home, Bai'er, though considered part of my family, still desperately searched for the mother wolf and crazily avenged the killers of the wolf pack. When the mother wolf’s heart-wrenching howls echoed in the wilderness at night, the wolf-child I had raised at home bit his mother and followed the mother wolf’s call.
The of survival roles, the emergence of human and wolf nature, the breakdown and of two families, and the irreconcilable conflict between the compassionate and pure nature of the wilderness and human evil and greed are vividly depicted. At the same time, the character of the wolf and the love of the mother wolf are highlighted in bold strokes. On the dreamlike Horqin grassland, the tragic story of humans and wolves returning to a hopeless fate becomes a powerful work of grassland culture.