Oracle Bones

Informationen zum Autor Peter Hessler is a correspondent for the New Yorker and a contributor to National Geographic . He is the author of ORACLE BONES and RIVER TOWN, which won the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. In 2011 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation 'genius grant'. Born in Columbia, Missouri, he now lives in Cairo with his wife and daughters. Klappentext Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in ORACLE BONES, Hessler returns to the country, excavating its long history and immersing himself in the lives of young Chinese as they migrate from the traditional Chinese countryside to the booming ever-changing cities and try to cope with their society's modern transformation. Zusammenfassung From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare and authentic portrait - both intimate and epic - of twenty-first century China as it opens its doors to the world

Product details

• Authors: Peter Hessler, Hessler Peter
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 22.02.2007
• EAN: 9780719564413
• ISBN: 978-0-7195-6441-3
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 137 mm x 197 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; China, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, HISTORY / Asia / China, Travel writing, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Asian History, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China