| Description |
433 pages ; 24 cm |
| Summary |
"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. A feud breaks out with a neighboring chieftain; an emissary from the Chinese Nationalists comes to the Maichis' aid with 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."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Poppies -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region -- Fiction.
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Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Fiction.
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Poppies. (OCoLC)fst01071331
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China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
(OCoLC)fst01758817
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Added Author |
Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
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Lin, Sylvia Li-chun.
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| Added Title |
Chen ai lou ding. English
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Alai, 1959- Chen ai lou ding. English. Red poppies. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002 (OCoLC)606808814 |
| ISBN |
0618119647 |
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9780618119646 |
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