''Odgerel'' (''Starlight'') is a 1957 novel by

Mongolia Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south and southeast. It covers an area of , with a population of 3.5 million, making it the world's List of countries and dependencies by po ...

n author Sonomyn Udval. The novel relates the story of the hardship of a

Gobi The Gobi Desert (, , ; ) is a large, cold desert and grassland region in North China and southern Mongolia. It is the sixth-largest desert in the world. The name of the desert comes from the Mongolian word ''gobi'', used to refer to all of th ...

woman during her course of life.

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1957 novels Novels by Sonomyn Udval {{1950s-novel-stub