From AFP:
Former Chinese political prisoner Lu Jiamin kept his name a secret for a long time, writing his award-winning best-seller “Wolf Totem” under a pseudonym.
But after years of commercial success in book stores across China, the Asian equivalent of the Booker Prize under his belt, and the film rights sold to “Lord of the Rings” director Peter Jackson, Lu is coming out of hiding.
“Wolf Totem,” a fictional account of life in the 1970s in the remote China-Mongolia border region, and the struggle between tradition and modernity, is based on Lu’s own travels in the region over more than a decade.
