Just when the long-winded best-seller Tibet Code (藏地密码)– all seven volumes! — had just about fallen off the radar, along comes another heavyweight novel sure to rekindle interest in the region: King Gesar (格萨尔王) by the ethnic Tibetan author Alai (阿来). Meanwhile, Eileen Chang’s Little Reunion (小团员) and Jiang Rong’s Wolf Totem (狼图腾), the tale of the education of a Han intellectual by nomadic herders in Inner Mongolia, now both rank among the Top Ten.