“Oracle Bones will firmly establish Mr. Hessler as one of the Western world’s most thoughtful writers on modern China. . . . A page-turner with great insight into Chinese society. . . . A richly humanistic portrayal.”—Wall Street JournalThe acclaimed author of River Town offers es a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of 21st-century China. Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. All are migrants, emigrants, or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Peter Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous transformation before our eyes.
