Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

This is the story of a culture within a culture. The conflict between the two cultures comes out as a love affair develops between two young people.

Peony

In her acceptance speech upon receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pearl Buck said, "The mind of my own country and of China, my foster country, are alike in many ways, but above all, in our common love of freedom." "East Wind: West Wind" embodies this love of, and struggle for, freedom.

East Wind, West Wind

Dragon Seed

Restaurant owner Madam Liang, having sent her three daughters to America to be educated and to escape the coming Communist revolution in China, refuses herself to flee to safety even though her decision could end her life.

Three Daughters of Madame Liang

A HOUSE DIVIDED is the third volume of Pearl S. Buck's trilogy that began with THE GOOD EARTH and SONS--a powerful portrayal of China in the midst of revolution. "A HOUSE DIVIDED is built around China in revolution and the conflict between the young and old generations . . . a rich an illuminating book.--The New York Times.

A House Divided

The third book in a trilogy about the struggles of a Chinese family.

The Mother

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.

An American Classic

The Good Earth

Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also promising emancipation to China's oppressed millions who are groping for a way to survive in a modern age.

Sons

Kwei-Lan " vient d'être mariée ", sans le connaître, à un jeune homme de sa race mais qui revient d'Europe. Ce Chinois n'est plus un Chinois, il a oublié la loi des ancêtres, il ne reconnaît, ne respecte ni les coutumes ni les rites... Le frère de Kwei-Lan, qui vient de passer trois ans en Amérique, l'héritier mâle, dépositaire du nom et des vertus de la race, annonce son mariage avec une étrangère ; il revient avec elle... A travers les réactions des membres de cette famille de haute condition où l'attachement aux traditions, le culte des ancêtres, l'autorité du père et de la mère n'avaient encore subi aucune atteinte, la grande romancière Pearl Buck nous fait vivre intensément le conflit souvent dramatique entre la jeune et la vieille Chine.

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Vent d'Est, vent d'Ouest

A novel about Burmese and Chinese conflicts.

The Promise

The classic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author offers a graphic view of China during the reign of the last emperor as it tells the story of an honest Chinese peasant and his wife as they struggle with the sweeping changes of the twentieth century. Reprint.

Om et ægteskab mellem en amerikaner og en japanerinde

The Hidden Flower

Imperial Woman

The Long Love

The story of an American-Chinese family separated by the communist revolution in China, as they struggle to overcome difficulties and the prejudices a family of mixed blood must face. The half-Chinese husband remains behind in China, while the mother and teenage son go back to the mother's original home state of Vermont. The anxious wife awaits word from her husband, as the young mixed-race son falls in love with an American girl. The mother breaks up this particular romance.

A Novel

Letter from Peking

Lost for forty years, a new novel by the author of The Good Earth The Eternal Wonder tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever--and, ultimately, to love. Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has no contact with her American mother, who abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Both Rann and Stephanie yearn for a sense of genuine identity. Rann feels plagued by his voracious intellectual curiosity and strives to integrate his life of the mind with his experience in the world. Stephanie feels alienated from society by her mixed heritage and struggles to resolve the culture clash of her existence. Separated for long periods of time, their final reunion leads to a conclusion that even Rann, in all his hard-earned wisdom, could never have imagined. A moving and mesmerizing fictional exploration of the themes that meant so much to Pearl Buck in her life, The Eternal Wonder is perhaps her most personal and passionate work, and will no doubt appeal to the millions of readers who have treasured her novels for generations.

The Eternal Wonder

News reaches the couple [Maharana Prince Jagat and his wife, Moti] that their only son, Jai, has been killed by the Chinese in a border skirmish, an inconsolable Moti send Jagat out to bring the boy's spirit home. On the journey, the prince becomes involved with a beautiful and mysterious young American woman. Thus begins the fatal attraction between Eastern and Western ways, one bound by rigid custom, the other temptingly ripe with freethinking.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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