The Guest on the Ice Mountain In the summer of 1951, Nauruz, a herdsman at the Salier Pass in Xinjiang, married a bride who claimed to be Guldanum but was actually Guli Bar, a female spy who had gone into hiding while the bandit chief Relipu was escaping. The arrival of the bride stirs up a painful memory for Amir, a new soldier at the PLA outpost. He and...