Description: "This translation opens up for an English-reading audience a major work preserved through oral transmission over centuries and despite suppression by outside imperial powers. Standing alongside other traditional epics such as The Odyssey and Beowulf, Jangar is a unique work of the oral imagination with stunning characteristics, both fantastic and surreal, of its own."--Jerome Rothenberg, Professor Emeritus, Visual Arts and Literature, University of California, San Diego
Review Quotes: "Bougdaeva produces a lively, readable text that mimics the compactness and rapidity of the Kalmyk line."-- "Journal of Folklore Research Reviews"