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

Red Poppies: A Novel of Tibet

Alai, Howard Goldblatt, Sylvia Li-chun Lin

448 pages first pub 1998 (view 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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