![]() ![]() 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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