The Blue Mountains of China
For readers of Wiebe's Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest and Sandra Birdsell's The Russländer comes an epic novel on the Mennonite experience, by a Governor General's Literary Award-winning author.
The Blue Mountains of China tells the unforgettable story of a group of Russian Mennonites in search of a land that would give them religious freedom. Alive with the excitement of a journey that begins in the oppressive poverty of a Russian village and ends on the Canadian prairies and in the Chaco Boreal of Paraguay, this is the story of a remarkable group of men and women—all determined, above all else, to triumph in their quest.
More than a saga of generations, The Blue Mountains of…
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December 9, 2008
Rudy Wiebe was born on October 4, 1934, in an isolated farm community of about 250 people in a rugged but lovely region near Fairholme, Saskatchewan. His parents had escaped Soviet Russia with five children in 1930, part of the last generation of homesteaders to settle the Canadian West, and part of a Mennonite history of displacement and emigration through Europe and Asia to North and South America since the seventeenth century. In 1947 his family gave up their bush farm and moved to Coaldale, Alberta, a town east of Lethbridge peopled largely by Ukrainians, Mennonites, Mormons, and Central Europeans, as well as Japanese, who ended up there during WW II.
Rudy Wiebe read as much as possible from an early…
Come Back
Rudy Wiebe
Extraordinary Canadians: Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
River Of Stone
Rudy Wiebe
Temptations Of Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
Peace Shall Destroy Many
Rudy Wiebe
The Blue Mountains of China
Rudy Wiebe, Afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller Afterword by Eva-Marie Kroller
Fruits of the Earth
Frederick Philip Grove, Afterword by Rudy Wiebe Afterword by Rudy Wiebe
Of This Earth
Rudy Wiebe
Sweeter Than All The World
Rudy Wiebe
Stolen Life
Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe
A Discovery Of Strangers
Rudy Wiebe
The Temptations of Big Bear
Rudy Wiebe
Wacousta
John Richardson
The Double Hook
Sheila Watson
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Stephen Leacock, Seth
The Stone Angel
Margaret Laurence
Roughing It in the Bush
Susanna Moodie
Son of a Smaller Hero
Mordecai Richler
The Acrobats
Mordecai Richler
Love and Salt Water
Ethel Wilson
The Kissing Man
George Elliott
Ancient Lineage and Other Stories
Morley Callaghan
Blood Ties
David Adams Richards
Lives of Short Duration
David Adams Richards
The Coming of Winter
David Adams Richards
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories
Mavis Gallant
My Financial Career and Other Follies
Stephen Leacock
Conclave
Robert Harris
Dayspring
Anthony Oliveira
Eden
Jim Crace
Darkness
David Adams Richards
I Was the President's Mistress!!
Miguel Syjuco
Sea Prayer
Khaled Hosseini
Such Is My Beloved
Morley Callaghan
A Measure of Light
Beth Powning
The Cunning Man
Robertson Davies
The Cunning Man
Robertson Davies
The Book of Jonah
Joshua Max Feldman
A History of Loneliness
John Boyne
The Space Trilogy
C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia
C.S. Lewis