There is a good review of the book on Buddhist Fiction Blog
This book came out in 2008. Originally published in French. This novelization is of the great purge in Mongolia in 1937-9. Estimates differ, but anywhere between 20,000 and 35,000 "enemies of the revolution" were executed, a figure representing three to five percent of Mongolia's total population at the time. Stalin saw Buddhism as a contradiction to Marxism, and he destroyed as much as he could in Mongolia.
The author, in her researches, found out that 6 people of her family were killed.
Oyungerel Tsedevdamba is a policy advisor for the Mongolian government and was Stanford's first Mongolian student, enrolling in 2003 at age 36 in the master’s program in international policy studies. Her interest in dinosaurs began in 2006 with a visit to the American Museum of Natural History, which displayed Mongolian dinosaur fossils the guide said would be returned to Mongolia if the country had a museum to display them.
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