The Buried
The Buried A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary…
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The Buried
A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist "Extraordinary...Sensitive and perceptive, Mr. He wanted to learn Arabic, explore Cairo's neighborhoods, and visit the legendary archaeological digs of Upper Egypt. Hessler is a superb literary archaeologist, one who handles what he sees with a bit of wonder that he gets to watch the history of this grand city unfold, one day at a time." --Wall Street JournalFrom the acclaimed author of River Town and Oracle Bones, an intimate excavation of life in one of the world's oldest civilizations at a time of convulsive changeDrawn by a fascination with Egypt's rich history and culture, Peter Hessler moved with his wife and twin daughters to Cairo in 2011.
But not long before he arrived, the After his years of covering China for The New Yorker, friends warned him Egypt would be a much quieter place.