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Brooding expat and journalist Paul Leibovitz is beginning to imagine a new life for himself in Hong Kong, one where the grief over a recently available family tragedy doesn't consume him and his love for Christine Wu brings him great delight. When Christine gets an urgent and emotionally-charged notice from her estranged sibling, Paul journeys with her to a distant village external Shanghai, in which a mysterious illness has effects on the local people. Paul discovers a powerful chemical type conglomerate is polluting a close by lake, and Chinese language officials are doing little or nothing to stop it. The patients demand justice, but taking legal action could demonstrate even more threatening than the weird disease itself. Federal government intimidation and political problem threaten to control even the most passionate and audacious environmental activists. If Paul doesn't walk away, he could take the woman he loves back to a world she escaped from years ago - placing their marriage and their lives at risk. Suspenseful and rife with the gripping storytelling that defines Sendker's remarkable work and harks back again to The Art work of Hearing Heartbeats, The Vocabulary of Solitude offers a peerless consider contemporary China.