Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West

By Peter Hessler

Categories: Travel

Strange Stones: Dispatches from East and West (2013) is a collection of reporting by Peter Hessler. Drawn mostly from his work in China for The New Yorker, the pieces also include writing from Japan, Nepal and Hessler's hometown in Colorado. He portrays ordinary lives against the background of rapid social and economic change in China and in the American West he knows best.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is "Strange Stones" by Peter Hessler. Have you ever thought you really should spend some time in China to understand the world's next great power? Well, here is the quick root: read this book. "The New Yorker" correspondent takes you inside the lives and world of the Chinese people in a way that few outsiders have ever been able to. This is long-formed journalism at its finest.”