A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the people of the Yangtze — until the interplay
A Single Pebble
โ Scribed by Hersey, John
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Vintage Books
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 223 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- New York
- ISBN
- 0593080726
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โฆ Synopsis
A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the people of the Yangtze โ until the interplay of his life with theirs comes to a dramatic climax.
โฆ Subjects
FICTION -- Literary
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