Sold in translation (Newsweek)
By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Published Dec 31, 2009 From the magazine issue dated Jan 11, 2010 When penguin paid $100,000 for the worldwide rights to the English translation of Jiang Rong's bestseller Wolf Totem in 2005, it set a record as China's most expensive overseas book deal. The tale of a Beijing student sent to work as a shepherd in Inner Mongolia...