bookshelves: hardback, mystery-thriller, series, spring-2013, tbr-busting-2013, tibet, onhold Read from April 10 to 21, 2013 Opening: There are sounds in Tibet heard nowhere else in the world. Hollow moans inexplicably roll down the slopes of snowcapped peaks.Himahlya reads in Spring 2013:3* In ...
bookshelves: published-2002, series, paper-read, china, mystery-thriller, tibet, tbr-busting-2013, spring-2013, hardback Read from April 10 to 23, 2013 ** spoiler alert ** First line - "Sift the sand to find the seeds of the universe."Shan, the canny Han, and his sidekick Lokesh in another grim t...
bookshelves: mystery-thriller Read in January, 2008 Superbly written but not a light flick-through. This is erudition with a capital E. Featuring Shan, the Canny Han. The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the gr...
Shan was a detective. He didn't work within the system and has ended up working on a road gang largely populated by Buddhist Monks whose attitude has infected Shan and induced him to embrace Buddhism. It is a surprise to him that he's made to investigate a murder, but he's certain that the monk t...
This is the second story of Shan Tao Yun, the former Beijing investigator turned prisoner and Buddhist. He's sent to investigate the death of a venerated Buddhist teacher and lama and finds himself embroiled in the politics of a different kind. There are stretches of this book that resonated deepl...
Inspector Shan Tao Yun is imprisoned for pissing off his superior in Beijing and is currently in a Tibetan gulag along with a ton of Tibetan monks. When the chain gang road crew discovers a headless body, Shan is forced by the warden to investigate. The mystery is very convoluted, intricate and ext...
First line - "Sift the sand to find the seeds of the universe."Shan, the canny Han, and his sidekick Lokesh in another grim tale about an even grimmer reality. In this one we get to know a bit about another religion: Bon-PoThe minority Bon-Po faith of Tibet represents a continuing stream of religiou...
Opening: There are sounds in Tibet heard nowhere else in the world. Hollow moans inexplicably roll down the slopes of snowcapped peaks.Himahlya reads in Spring 2013:3* In the Forbidden Land4* Trespassers on the Roof of the World3* In the HimalayasCR Bone MountainCR Beautiful Ghosts5* The Skull Mantr...
I didn't dislike this, and he certainly writes well in describing Tibet, but I had trouble with it. I wasn't able to pick up on any of the clues, many of which were in the form of koans. The bits of the puzzle were like drops of water; shapeless, without defined edges, and completely transparent. ...
A good story, if a little hard to swallow, but really, we've read this before.If you want to read about a man unfairly convicted and sentenced to hard labour for political differences with the ruling elite, then set "free" to investigate crimes against the same people who jailed him in the first pla...
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