Peter Hessler

Country Driving

A Chinese Road Trip

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A very accessible, often laugh-out-loud funny, always illuminating trip around one of the most fascinating countries in the world

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 128mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 369g
• ISBN-13: 9781847674371
• ISBN-10: 1847674372
• Artikelnr.: 32135197

Autorenporträt

Peter Hessler is a staff writer at the New Yorker, where he served as the Beijing correspondent from 2000 to 2007 and is also a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of River Town, which won the Kiriyama Book Prize, and Oracle Bones, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. He won the 2008 National Magazine Award for Excellence in reporting.

Rezensionen

"A fascinating road trip through a land in transition. . . . Hessler's description of China's new drivers is hilarious. . . . Country Driving tells us as much about contemporary China even when Hessler is not on the road." The Christian Science Monitor