Writes Alexander Boyd, Associate Editor, China Books Review:
The Red Wind Howls is a banned historical novel about the cataclysms in the Tibetan region of Amdo under Mao Zedong. Structured as a diptych, we first follow three decades in the life of the delightfully despicable Alak Drong, a reincarnated lama corrupt in all ways imaginable, through labor camps reminiscent of Solzhenitsyn. Part two traces the Dharma-crossed romance of the monk Lozang Gyatso, who holds to his vows when he should renounce them (and vice versa), and the chaste Tashi Lhamo. Told with a raconteur’s daring . . . (continued)
The novel by Tsering Dondrup is also available in French as Tempête rouge, translated by Françoise Robin.
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