Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet by Alai, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt

Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet

Alai, Sylvia Li-chun Lin, Howard Goldblatt

448 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

fiction historical adventurous dark informative slow-paced
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A lively and cinematic twentieth-century epic, Red Poppies focuses on the extravagant and brutal reign of a clan of Tibetan warlords during the rise of Chinese Communism. The story is wryly narrated by the chieftain's son, a self-professed "idiot"...

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