Red Poppies A Novel of Tibet

Name: Red Poppies A Novel of Tibet
Price: 3.87 USD
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ISBN: 9780618340699

ISBN-10: 0618340696

ISBN-13: 9780618340699

Edition: 2002

Authors: Alai, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin

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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" who reveals the bloody feuds, seductions, secrets, and scheming behind his family's struggles for power. When the chieftain agrees to grow opium poppies with seeds supplied by the Chinese Nationalists in exchange for modern weapons, he draws Tibet into the opium trade -- and unwittingly plants the seeds for a downfall. A "swashbuckling novel" (New York Times Book Review), Red Poppies is at once a political parable and a moving elegy to the lost…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 5/6/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.288
Language: English