Alai

Red Poppies

Tibetan novel exploring drug trade, grief, and spiritual redemption

About the author

Alai

Tibetan Chinese novelist writing in Chinese whose Red Poppies won the Mao Dun Prize and told the history of a Khampa chieftain family through a half-wit son's eyes. He is the leading voice of Tibetan experience in Chinese fiction.

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