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 addition to the author, an American writer living in Beijing, the narrative follows Polat, a member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the United States in searchof freedom William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family and becomes a teacher Emily,a migrant factory worker in a city without a past and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions, the earliest known writing in East Asia, and a man whosetragic story has been lost since the Cultural Revolution. 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. That sense of time - the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country - is brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones, a book that explores the human side of China's transformation. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. 393 150, rue Ste-Cath.O - local #113įrom the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.
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