Red Poppies

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Publication Year:
2003

ISBN-13: 9780547347141

<DIV><B>This suspenseful saga of Tibet during the rise of Chinese Communism &ldquo;conjures up a faraway world&#160;.&#160;.&#160;.&#160;panoramic and intimate at the same time&rdquo; (Michiko Kakutani, <I>The New York Times</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> A lively and cinematic twentieth-century epic, <I>Red Poppies</I> 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&rsquo;s son, a self-professed &ldquo;idiot&rdquo; who reveals the bloody feuds, seductions, secrets, and scheming behind his family&rsquo;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&mdash;and unwittingly plants the seeds for a downfall. A &ldquo;swashbuckling novel,&rdquo; <I>Red Poppies</I> is at once a political parable and a moving elegy to the lost kingdom of Tibet in all its cruelty, beauty, and romance (<I>The New York Times Book Review</I>).</DIV>