Synopsis
Journeying to a remote Tibetan village to help construct a radio post, Jamie Wilson, a former WWII radio operator, falls in love with Puton, a widow banished by her people, but their growing relationship is threatened by the coming of Chinese forces, in a novel set against the backdrop of the 1950s Chinese invasion of Tibet. Reprint.
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Jonathan Falla has written award-winning dramas for stage and film, and has also written criticism, works on ethnography, musicology, travel, and medical journalism, with articles appearing in The Economist and The Times Literary Supplement. As a nurse, Falla has worked with aid agencies, including Save the Children, in countries in crisis all over the world--Nepal, Sudan, Burma, Uganda. He is also a musician and plays the lute in a professional quartet dedicated to Renaissance Spanish, French, Italian, and Shakespearian music.
Jonathan Falla makes his home in Fife, Scotland with his wife and their new baby.
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la weaves a powerful tale of love and war, exile and homecoming...and of one man s desire to lose himself in a foreign land, only to find himself caught in a time of chaos and change.
Blue Poppies
The year is 1950 and, as the world recovers from the ravages of World War II, the Chinese army is perched on the border of a fragile land awaiting its destiny. Jamie Wilson, a young Scottish wireless operator and veteran of the war, has just arrived in the remote Tibetan village of Jyeko. He has come on business--to establish a radio outpost--but his journey will resonate much more deeply.
Like those who have traveled to this place before him, Jamie, the Ying-gi-li, is mesmerized by the majestic mountain ranges and enigmatic people, but he will also find an uncommon refuge in its unyielding beauty and in the arms of the willful Puton, a young widow cast out by the people of Jyeko. Inexorably drawn together by a shared loneliness, Jamie and Puton disc
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