RED POPPIES Alai - An Epic Novel of Old Tibet

RED POPPIES: A lively and cinematic twentieth-century epic novel, Red Poppies focuses on the extravagant and brutal reign of a clan of Tibetan warlords during the rise of Chinese Communism.

USED BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION: clean and rarely read with minor reading waer; pages are clean and tanning with age; excellent binding with no spine creases. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

PUBLISHER'S BLURB: 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 kingdom of Tibet in all its cruelty, beauty, and romance.

Book Details

Code: SKU2016

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Large Paperback

Pages: 453

Published: 2002 by Viking, Australia

ISBN: 0670040320

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