Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Adult Fiction Stories from across the country

Stories from across the country about people who have special bonds with the wildlife around them: People in Mumbai live with leopards in their neighbourhood… School children in Karnataka discover an unusual creature in their village… Youth in Nagaland spearhead a ban on hunting… Ten short stories - all inspired by real-life situations

And because emotional lessons a child learns actually sculpt the brain's circuitry

Marked by the same wry humour that has defined his entire body of work

Gana and Mana

And she wanted to wear pants

Other Rivers: A Chinese Education Adult Fiction Stories from across the countryProduct Description 'Memorable One of [China's] most astute and sensitive foreign observers' Financial Times 'Compassionate full of warmth' Guardian More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local primary