River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze by Peter Hessler

Published 2006 · 432 pages · 118,800 words · about 8 hours at an average pace

How hard is River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze to read?

River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze scores 43 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Where the story of River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze takes place

  • Fuling, Chongqing, China, 1996–1998 (1996 to 1998), the main setting

About the author

Peter Hessler