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Item Details
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RED POPPIES
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| By: |
Alai, Howard Goldblatt (Trans), Sylvia Li-Chun Lin (Trans) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£8.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0618340696 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780618340699 |
| Publisher: |
CENGAGE LEARNING, INC |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 2003 |
| Pages: |
448 |
| Description: |
Ambitious, sensuous, filled with intriguing characters, panoramic settings, and high drama, "Red Poppies" opens a window on preoccupation Tibet. Set in the 1930s, it is the story of the wealthy Maichi family: its powerful chieftain, his Han Chinese wife, his first son and heir, and his second, "idiot" son, the novel's narrator and unlikely hero. |
| Synopsis: |
Ambitious, sensuous, filled with intriguing characters, panoramic settings, and high drama, "Red Poppies" opens a window on preoccupation Tibet. Set in the 1930s, it is the story of the wealthy Maichi family: its powerful chieftain, his Han Chinese wife, his first son and heir, and his second, "idiot" son, the novel's narrator and unlikely hero. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Houghton Mifflin |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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