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The Warlord

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Los sueños, reflexiones, experiencias y vida del americano Embree, la rusa blanca Vera y el general Tang no son más que meros pretextos que tiene el autor para introducirnos en el mundo de la caótica China de los años 20 cuando el país era regido por señores de la guerra que usaban alianzas, traiciones, batallas y reconciliaciones para pasar de un bando a otro, del bando de Chang Tso-ling (1875-1928) al de Chiang Kai-chek (1887-1975) y que no dudan en usar influencias de potencias occidentales, rusa o japonesa para adquirir armas y poder.
Una novela algo densa pero interesante, llena de descripciones de los paisajes y monumentos importantes de la China Imperial, costumbres, historia y filosofía oriental.

It's nice to find a 750 page novel that's able to keep the reader occupied without skipping over a single page or mentally editing, trying to find a few pages here and there that could have been cut during the editing process. It's also nice to find a novel that actually has characters casting yarrow sticks and consulting the I Ching, believing in what the consultations reveal.

The War Lord's a good book. It isn't a great book, but as a historical fiction work about China, it picks a good time as a setting and pulls the load for the time it takes to read it. I don't have any qualms about recommending it.

I read this book on my way to and from work in Portland, OR, via public metro. I was a young man then. I have raised four children to adulthood since. This book had a profound impact on my use of logic and also impacted my respect of life itself. I am now a much older man and still to this day qoute, "whoever or whatever it is that gives such things gives us our essence at birth. The design of this essence starts to unfold. To watch it unfold is to live. To watch it with confidence and good humor is to follow the way." Dude was true to himself and feared nothing. Nuff said. Definate good reading.

malcolm bosse is a gifted writer,I read his book with alot of pleasure(it took me about a week). the way he describes the main characters by the events that brings them together and splits them up again is rather tragic but I think that this is a good way to profile china with it's long history