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Cargando... The Skull Mantra (1999)por Eliot Pattison
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. the mystery was average but the information on tibet under occupation and buddhism made for a very interesting read ( ) his was about a Tibetan detective who had been sent to a work camp for having gotten too close to the truth in some key cases. He is asked to help the prison director with a case. He does. A bit slow moving, but interesting insight into Buddhist culture. Wife Sharon has read another book by this author (Water Touching Stone), which she loved, so I stayed with this book, otherwise, I probably would have given up. it took like 300 pages for this one to get going for me, and by then i was too lost to really understand all he was doing here. i think, actually, that this is a really interesting and complicated mystery and i like his messaging. he has a lot to say about the government in china and what is going on with tibet, the abuses and mistreatment that is rampant. there is a lot to learn in this book; about that and about buddhism. but mostly it was just too much of a slog for me, and too hard, even though he is obviously a good writer, and cares about this place and these people. it was probably just the wrong time for me to read this, and i wish i had liked it more, but this wasn't for me right now. "'It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.'" Stunningly absorbing portrait of Tibet and tensions with China. As a devoted mystery reader, I found the characters and plot, combined with the casual use of Buddhist tenets and practices challenging to parse. You either fill in the blanks yourself or hang on for the reveal. I found myself in Wikipedia a lot! Nonetheless the atmosphere (and the mystery) are very well done. Shan is a political prisoner in a work camp, when a dead body is discovered. The local political boss decides to have Shan investigate, given his background. He is assigned a Tibetan prisoner to help, and a Chinese guard to watch them. The plot is thick and quite meandering, but Shan is determined and keeps investigating, eventually uncovering the culprit and the motive. Ambitious effort, with a healthy dose of anti-communist/pro-Buddhist philosophy. I was bored at times, and doubt I will read the next book in the series. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Habia sido inspector general del Ministerio de Economia chino. Ahora cumple condena en las montanas del Tibet. Su delito? Ser uno de los ultimos hombres honestos de Pekin. Shan Yao Tung conoce todas las facetas del horror y la crueldad, y sabe que su vida, en las montanas del Tibet, no vale nada. Por eso, cuando un alto militar chino le encomienda la tarea de investigar un misterioso asesinato, Shan no puede negarse. Tal vez su labor termine ayudando a sus companeros de trabajos forzados. A lo largo de esta intrincada novela de misterio en la que nada es lo que parece, Pattison desvela al lector las claves de la tenaz resistencia pacifica en un pais cruelmente ocupado. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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