The Red Wind Howls: A Novel
by Dondrup Tsering
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"A story of CCP-occupied Tibet, beginning with the 1958 Tibetan uprising in Amdo and resultant crackdown and continuing through the famine of the Great Leap Forward and the mass arrests of the Cultural Revolution. It's a fictional chronicle of the gulags in which Tibetans were held under brutal conditions, consciously inspired by Solzhenitsyn, but written with the author's typical black humor. The book draws on interviews Tsering Dn?drup did with survivors of these events and archival show more materials he had access to through his official position. He wrote the book intending to see it published-when he was writing in the early to mid 2000s, this seemed possible-but by 2009 the censorship landscape had changed. Tsering Dn?drup printed some copies himself, and after a Chinese translation was published in Hong Kong, he was forced to resign from the party and from his job and had his passport and pension revoked. A French translation was published in 2019 and in 2020 won the human rights-focused Le Prix Montluc Ršistance et Libert"?-- show lessTags
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction
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- 895.43 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature Literatures of East and Southeast Asia Tibetan and other Himalayan languages Tibetan fiction
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- PL3748 .T776 .R5813 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Sino-Tibetan languages Tibeto-Burman languages Tibeto-Himalayan languages Tibetan
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