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09.07.2010
Travel Book of the Moment —
Written by Peter Hessler, a fluent Mandarin speaker and long-time Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, this is travel writing at its best. Divided into three parts, Hessler first drives himself (a risky pursuit) across northern China, following fragments of the Great Wall. Then, he rents a house in a village, two hours from Beijing. He arrives in 2001, ‘the last year of silence’ and sees rural life transformed. In the final section, he rushes headlong into China’s booming economic heartland. But it’s the individuals Hessler befriends, in a real, meaningful way, who breathe such life and compassion into his prose.
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