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Opium wars and Nanjing massacre turned into epic fantasy in Chinese author’s debut novel

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang Harper Voyagers 4/5 stars The Poppy War is the first novel by R.F. – or Rebecca – Kuang. Born in Guangdong province, Kuang emigrated to the United States and then England, where she plans to study at Cambridge University. The Poppy War, which she wrote aged 19, opens a trilogy that promises to “[grapple] with drugs, shamanism, and China’s bloody twentieth century”. Her heroine, Rin, has something of her creator: she is young,...

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