Joanna refuses to believe that he is dead and tries all the official channels to find out more information but is constantly fobbed off with bureaucratic side stepping. When Aidan is re-assigned to travel to cover the civil war in Kashmir the plane he is traveling on, crashes but no bodies are recovered. She rescues and subsequently tries to adopt a young 10 year old girl girl called Kamla. Joanna Shaw manages a retreat for the young girls sold into prostitution in New Delhi's 'Flash Houses.' while her husband Aidan, a Chinese American Journalist with 'socialist leanings, is covering a story. When Aidan is re-assigned to travel to cover the civil war in Kashmir the p Flash Aimee Liu.Ī most enjoyable book, filled with suspense and intrigue. A most enjoyable book, filled with suspense and intrigue. A happy ending would have made the whole journey trite.moreįlash Aimee Liu. The ending while disappointing was indicative of war, espionage, love triangles and of abandoned children.
In this case, (for me at least,) Kipling's view of the Great Game, Sven Hedin (explorer), Robert Shaw (explorer) & others.Īside from my love of history, I appreciated Aimee Liu's writing, a beautiful mix of description, narrative, prose, character development, with an outstanding grip on cultural oppression and the repercussions of war. It's also one of those books that lead you to other books and writers.
It's one of those books that I love that combine history with adventure without being cloying or fake. It's the underlying history that is both fascinating and riveting and if you are not fully aware of what happened there in northern Asia, it will send you scurrying to wikipedia and history books. On the surface it's a spy story cum romance and orphan rescue. It's also one of those books that lead you to other books and writers The novel begins in 1949 in India not long after India's Partition. The novel begins in 1949 in India not long after India's Partition. The ensuing journey leads over some of the highest mountain passes in the world, finally landing the rescuers in western China just weeks before the Communist takeover-a world where nothing is as it appears.more With Aidan's best friend and a mysterious native girl, Kamla, whom she has saved from an Indian brothel-or “flash house,” Joanna sets off for the northernmost reaches of India. Now Joanna is convinced that his disappearance involves more than accident. Aidan has been accused of harboring Communist sympathies, and his mission to Kashmir was supposed to clear his name of these charges. When a plane carrying American journalist Aidan Shaw goes down in Kashmir in 1949, Aidan's wife Joanna refuses to accept that he is dead. Aidan has been accu From the acclaimed author of CLOUD MOUNTAIN comes a suspenseful novel of rescue and redemption set in Central Asia at the start of the Cold War, with two unforgettable heroines whose fates are irrevocably intertwined. From the acclaimed author of CLOUD MOUNTAIN comes a suspenseful novel of rescue and redemption set in Central Asia at the start of the Cold War, with two unforgettable heroines whose fates are irrevocably intertwined.
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