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Red Poppies by Alai (2002, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100618119647
ISBN-139780618119646
eBay Product ID (ePID)1956883
Product Key Features
Book TitleRed Poppies
Number of Pages448 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Historical
Publication Year2002
GenreFiction
TypeTextbook
AuthorAlai
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight26.9 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-039530
ReviewsImmensely enjoyable . . . One of the best of the wave of contemporary Chinese novels translated in recent years., "A compelling portrait of an unfamiliar place on the cusp of modernity; a promising new writer." Kirkus Reviews "Immensely enjoyable . . . One of the best of the wave of contemporary Chinese novels translated in recent years." Publishers Weekly "Shrewdly satiric and wonderfully entertaining." Booklist, ALA
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal895.1/352
Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition
SynopsisAmbitious, beautifully told, filled with intriguing characters, panoramic settings, and high drama, RED POPPIES opens a window on a unique region of pre-occupation Tibet, dispelling many of the popular myths about a uniformly pacifistic society peopled by devout worshipers. Set in the eastern part of the country, whose autocratic chieftains received their power to govern from Chinese emperors in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, this novel is about a feudal society in full, hot-house bloom. Lavish, sensual lifestyles, passionate romance, and bloody feuds take center stage in a sweeping historical tale that does for Tibet what the works of Garcia Marquez have done for Colombia and of Faulkner have done for the American South. RED POPPIES is the story of the Maichi family, its powerful chieftain, his Han Chinese wife, his first son and presumptive heir, and his second, "idiot," son, the novel's narrator and unlikely hero. The time is the 1930s, the setting a stone fortress overlooking all the family rules, the arid plains of eastern Tibet, and a thinly scattered populous of peasant farmers, merchants, and ineffectual, often comical local lamas. A feud breaks out with a neighboring chieftain; an emissaryfrom the Chinese Nationalists comes to the Maichis' aid with the tools of modern warfare. In exchange, fields of bright red poppies, valuable in the Nationalist-sponsored heroin trade, are to be planted instead of grain in a deal that makes the family even richer and earns them the enmity of nearly everyone. The blooming of the poppies is only the opening act of an epic, cinematic story follows the surprising fortunes of the narrator to the eve of Tibet's occupation by the People's Liberation Army. The first novel in a projected trilogy, RED POPPIES is a complex political parable, a sensuous, riveting read, and finally a moving elegy to the lost world of the author's homeland, in all its cruelty, beauty, and romance.
LC Classification NumberPL2833.A5C4813 2002
