“The Red Wind Howls”: Tibetan Novel makes China Books Review “Best of 2025”

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, … Continue reading “The Red Wind Howls”: Tibetan Novel makes China Books Review “Best of 2025”