In the Lap of the Gods

by Li Miao Lovett

Book Overview

"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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935248138
• ISBN13: 9781935248132
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Leapfrog Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"