Red Poppies

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Methuen, 2003 - Fiction - 400 pages
In the 1930s a wealthy Tibetan family, the Maiqis, make a bargain with an emissary of the Chinese Nationalists. In exchange for military support, they are to plant fields of poppies, valuable in the heroin trade - a deal that enriches the Maiqis' lavish lifestyle and earns them dangerous enmity.

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Bibliographic information

TitleRed Poppies
AuthorAlai
Editionreprint, revised
PublisherMethuen, 2003
ISBN0413771830, 9780413771834
Length400 pages
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Fiction / Historical / General
Literary Criticism / Asian / General
  
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