East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family - eBook

Name: East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family - eBook
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ISBN: 9781453263464

By: Pearl S. Buck

Open Road Media / 2012 / ePub

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Title: East Wind: West Wind: The Saga of a Chinese Family - eBook
By: Pearl S. Buck
Format: DRM Protected ePub
Vendor: Open Road Media

Publication Date: 2012
ISBN: 9781453263464
ISBN-13: 9781453263464
Stock No: WW44104EB

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Nobel winner Pearl S. Buck’s classic debut novel, about one Chinese woman’s coming of age as she’s torn between Eastern and Western cultures

Kwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girl—taught by her mother to submit in all things, "as a flower submits to sun and rain alike." Her marriage was arranged before she was born. As she approaches her wedding day, she’s surprised by one aspect of her anticipated life: Her husband-to-be has been educated abroad and follows many Western ideas that Kwei-lan was raised to reject. When circumstances push the couple out of the family home, Kwei-lan finds her assumptions about tradition and modernity tested even further.

East Wind: West Wind is a sensitive, early exploration of the cross-cultural themes that went on to become a hallmark of Buck’s acclaimed novels.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.

Author Bio

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Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women’s rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents. For her body of work, Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so. She died in Vermont.