IN THE LAP OF THE GODS (PAPERBACK) IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days "An important, even invaluable book, a moving farewell to the old, more humane way of life as China and all the world become technologized and globalized."--Maxine Hong Kingston A dam rises on the Yangtze, uprooting a million lives in a government-made, modern environmental and human rights disaster, and a poor salvager who has lost everything finds an abandoned baby girl. A tale of defiance, of a lost man finding his place--and a new kind of love--in modern China, and of a rich man reclaiming his soul and the woman he loved before the revolution tore them apart. Features Summary "An important, even invaluable book, a moving farewell to the old, more humane way of life as China and all the world become technologized and globalized... Author Li Miao Lovett Publisher Leapfrog Press Release date 20101017 Pages 315 ISBN 1-935248-13-8 ISBN 13 978-1-935248-13-2