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In water touching stone, the sequel to the internationally acclaimed the skull mantra, shan tao yun is cloistered in a remote tibetan sanctuary when he receives shattering news. A frequent visitor to china, his books and articles on international policy issues have been published around the world. Pdf beijing popout map download full pdf book download. A chinese official is murdered in a slave camp in tibet. This is one book that has more passages underlined than any of my others. Not many political thrillers are set in tibet, and few can match the power and poetry of this debut novel by journalist eliot pattison. At the bottom of this page you will find a button to. Without status, official identity, or the freedom to return to his former home in beijing, hes lived with the forbidden lamas for the past year.
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