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Peter Hessler
Peter Hessler is a correspondent for the New Yorker and a contributor to National Geographic. He is the author of ORACLE BONES and RIVER TOWN, which won the 2001 Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize. In 2011 he was awarded a MacArthur Foundation ‘genius grant’. Born in Columbia, Missouri, he now lives in Cairo with his wife and daughters.
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Oracle Bones
Peter Hessler's previous book River Town was a prize-winning, poignant and deeply compelling portrait of China. Now, in Oracle Bones, Hessler returns to the country,…
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River Town
When Peter Hessler went to China in the late 1990s, he expected to spend a couple of peaceful years teaching English in the town of…