A Single Pebble
John Hersey
181 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0394756975
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Language: English
Publish: February 11, 1989
20th CenturyAsiaChinaClassicsFictionHistorical FictionLiterary FictionLiteratureNovelsTravel
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 of his life with theirs comes to a dramatic climax.