A Single Pebble
While in China on business in the 1920s, a young American engineer becomes involved in the lives of people who live on a junk on the Yangtze River.
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- Vintage
- Year
- 1956
- ISBN-13
- 9780586049365
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Cultural encounterJourney along the Yangtze RiverTradition versus modernity
Awards
- National Book Award for FictionShortlistedMajor(1957)
Other awarded books from John Hersey
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