All of them migrants, emigrants or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand. The narrative tracks his story along with that of Polat, a trader and member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the West in search of political freedom and a new life William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family in a remote village Emily, a migrant factory worker in a city without a past and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions - the earliest known writing in East Asia - and a man whose mysterious story has been lost since his suicide years ago, at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. The author himself is a Westerner, a journalist living in Beijing. Oracle Bones tells its engaging and compelling story through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. The Dust-wrapper (£20) has NOT been price clipped. Free from any mark's, book-plate's, inscription's, under-lining, etc. A Very Good copy in like-wise Very Good dust-wrapper.
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