Red poppies
By: Alai ; translated from the Chinese by Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Li-Chun Lin
Publisher: Methuen
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9780413771827
Subjects: Fiction
Description: In the 1930s a wealthy Tibetan family, the Maichis, make a bargain with an emissary of the Chinese Nationalists. In exchange for military support they are to plant fields of poppies, a deal that earns them dangerous enmity.
Notes: Publisher's no. 3543167.