Love on the Yangtze
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Love on the Yangtze
A Novel by Michael Pick
In the shadow of the world's largest dam, secrets are rising faster than the water.
Marcus Hollen, a German engineer sent to supervise infrastructure near the Yangtze River, expects blueprints, budgets, and bureaucracy. Instead, he meets Mia—a brilliant and enigmatic cultural activist who leads him deep into a forbidden valley, toward an ancient shrine that was never meant to be found.
When a jade medallion awakens something buried beneath the reservoir, Marcus is thrust into a race against time, government forces, and his own doubts. As ancient memory collides with modern ambition, the two must decide what is worth remembering—before history is drowned forever.
Love on the Yangtze is a sweeping literary thriller about truth, memory, and resistance, set against the haunting beauty of a disappearing world. Mysterious, poetic, and charged with quiet urgency, it asks one simple question:
What happens when the past refuses to stay buried?
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