'A powerful paean to love and friendship'

Daily Mail

'Full of sudden folkloric reversals, hair's breadth escapes and magical last-minute reprieves ... Min's book goes further transforming the real Buck into a Chinese heroine, brave, beautiful, faithful and true.'

Hilary Spurling, Sunday Times

'Superbly touching and full of brilliant details'

Reader's Digest

In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; Pearl is the daughter of a Christian missionary who desperately wishes she was Chinese too. Neither could have foreseen the transformation of the little American girl embarrassed by her blonde hair into the Nobel Prize-winning writer and one of China's modern heroines, Pearl S. Buck.

When the country erupts in civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists, Pearl and Willow are brutally reminded of their differences. Pearl's family is forced to flee the country and Willow is punished for her loyalty to her ‘cultural imperialist' friend. And yet, in the face of everything that threatens to tear them apart, the paths of these two women remain intimately entwined.
Les mer
<b>From the bestselling author of <i>Red Azalea</i> and <i>Empress Orchid</i> comes the poignant story of a friendship of a lifetime</b>
<b>From the bestselling author of <i>Red Azalea</i> and <i>Empress Orchid</i> comes the poignant story of a friendship of a lifetime</b>
Anchee Min's new novel reveals the extraordinary life of Pearl S Buck; Nobel Prize-winning Buck wrote bestselling novel The Good Earth.<br />

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781408809792
Publisert
2011-05-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Vekt
340 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
126 mm
Dybde
26 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

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Om bidragsyterne

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. At seventeen she was sent to a labour collective, where a talent scout for Madame Mao's Shanghai Film Studio recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984.


Her memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller with rights sold in twenty countries. Her novels, Becoming Madame Mao, Katherine, Wild Ginger and Empress Orchid were published to wonderful reviews and impressive foreign sales.