Name: Pell Street Blues
Author: Achmed Abdullah
ISBN: 2940149831401

Published:

Jul-2014
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Historical
Pages:

32
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Fate wrote the first chapter of this tale some centuries ago, when it planted the seeds of mutual hate in two kindred Mongol races: in Chinese and in Manchu, and by the same token, in patient, earthbound peasant and in hawkish nomad, hard-galloping across the land, conquering it with the swish of the red sword, the scream and bray of the long-stemmed war-trumpets, the hollow nasal drone of the kettle-drums -- and overhead, the carrion-fed vultures paralleling the marauders' progress on eager wings.