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A review by bjerz
Beautiful Ghosts by Eliot Pattison
5.0
A book in Eliot Pattison's Inspector Shan series is more than a novel; it is an adventure.
In Beautiful Ghosts, the fourth in the series, Shan Tao Yun, a former Chinese prosecutor and gulag prisoner, is on the lam in Chinese-occupied Tibet. He has found a measure of happiness and contentment among the peasants and lamas of Tibet, where ghosts are alive and every rock and tree has its own deity, when a filthy rich American, a CIA operative, and a high-ranking Chinese minister of culture descend on a sacred building site, bent on despoiling and thievery.
Pattison's description of the beautiful and tragic country of modern Tibet, and its crushing domination by China, are heartbreakingly real. And Beautiful Ghosts is truly a cautionary tale of frustrated dominance countered by unbending love, masked as a mystery.
In Beautiful Ghosts, the fourth in the series, Shan Tao Yun, a former Chinese prosecutor and gulag prisoner, is on the lam in Chinese-occupied Tibet. He has found a measure of happiness and contentment among the peasants and lamas of Tibet, where ghosts are alive and every rock and tree has its own deity, when a filthy rich American, a CIA operative, and a high-ranking Chinese minister of culture descend on a sacred building site, bent on despoiling and thievery.
Pattison's description of the beautiful and tragic country of modern Tibet, and its crushing domination by China, are heartbreakingly real. And Beautiful Ghosts is truly a cautionary tale of frustrated dominance countered by unbending love, masked as a mystery.