Description
Pearl of China
by Anchee Min
Paperback – 1 June 2011
A fictionalised account of the life of writer Pearl Buck as told by her best friend, Willow Yee.
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.
Book Description
From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the poignant story of a friendship of a lifetime.
About the Author
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.
Product details
- Publisher : Bloomsbury Pb; 1st edition (1 June 2011)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1408809796
- ISBN-13 : 9781408809792
- Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.85 x 19.8 cm
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