'A brilliant tapestry of ancient and modern China' * Spectator * You will be hooked' * International Herald Tribune * 'Extensive travel around China with occasional flits back home to the U.S., combine with some fascinating speculation on the origins of Chinese civilisation and how the remote past impinges on the present' * China Review * 'Oracle Bones, the much anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed debut, River Town, lays bare a rapidly evolving China through his often bizarre encounters with the engines of its social changes.' * South China Morning Post * 'A swirl of interconnecting stories and histories make up Peter Hessler's extraordinary, genre-defying second book' * Daily Telegraph * 'One of the most profoundly original books about China' * The Economist * To encounter one that is as literate and sensitive as Peter Hessler is a joy * Simon Winchester * To come across a Westerner patient enough and tolerant enough to try and understand the immense, exasperating and ultimately lovable entity that is China is always a pleasure.
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