《奇石》是《纽约客》专栏作家彼得•海斯勒创作的纪实中国三部曲的番外篇，收入三部曲写作期间，即时或零星素材创作的文章，可以说是三部曲的前传，也是那三本书中部分人物的后续跟踪。书中收录自2000到2012的12年间，作者在3个国家的见闻，讲述了关于12个家庭的24个故事。
从广东鼠肉餐馆到安徽汽车厂，从东京黑社会到尼泊尔村庄，不拘一格。该书文章延续何伟在三部曲里的风格，通过个人命运透视历史，没有说教和批判，只有冷静的观察以及贯穿始终的幽默。比如该书的第一篇关于在广东吃鼠肉的经历，读起来也许有些恶心，但那种作者与被观察者的自嘲很好地消解了那种可怖的场面。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2079.html
From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2079.html
A century ago, outsiders saw China as a place where nothing ever changes. Today the country has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of time—the contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving country—is brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones, a book that explores the human side of China's transformation.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2079.html
Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In addition to the author, an American writer living in Beijing, the narrative follows Polat, a member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the United States in search of freedom; William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family and becomes a teacher; 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 tragic story has been lost since the Cultural Revolution. All are migrants, emigrants, or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2079.html
Peter Hessler excavates the past and puts a remarkable human face on the history he uncovers. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/2079.html
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