Pearl S Buck - Böcker

"Den goda jorden" är berättelsen om den kinesiske bonden Wang Lungs väg från fattigdom till rik och mäktig jordägare med både hustru och älskarinna. Buck beskriver de kinesiska kvinnornas liv och maktlöshet, både som gifta och ogifta, ge...

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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...

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"The author's famous story of a Japanese boy who must face life after escaping the tidal wave destruction of his family and village . . ."--"Booklist." Illustrated with 18th- and 19th-century Japanese prints.

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Originally published in 1955, Buck's book is a heartwarming story about sacrifice and the spirit of giving. Now with critically acclaimed artist Buehner's inspired illustrations, "Christmas Day in the Morning" will become a timeless holi...

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"If you're giving one book for Christmas, make it this one." -Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook They are some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, ...

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"If you're giving one book for Christmas, make it this one." -Jim Trelease, author, The Read-Aloud Handbook They are some of the warmest childhood memories, those unhurried evenings around the fireplace, Christmas tree, or dinner table, ...

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ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATEDBY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIPA poignant tale about the life and labors of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country9s last emperor.EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: - A concise introduction that give...

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The classic coming-of-age novel about a young Chinese woman torn between Eastern and Western cultures by the Nobel Prizewinning author of The Good Earth. Kwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girltaught by her mother to submit in all things, ';as a fl...

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The second installment in Pearl S. Buck's acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruinSons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang...

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A man returns to his native China to find upheaval in both his homeland and his family in this novel by a New York Timesbestselling author. On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country...

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From the Nobel Prizewinning author of The Good Earth: The ';moving story' of a peasant woman in pre-revolutionary China who is abandoned by her husband (Kirkus Reviews). Dickensian in its epic sweep, one of Buck's finest novels centers on an unnam...

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A ';vivid and extremely interesting' novel of an upper-class Chinese wife's quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prizewinning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker). At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China's...

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ANew York Timesbestselling historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking from the author ofThe Good Earth. Farmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that Japanese ...

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A novel set in WWII Burma about a tragic ChineseEnglish alliance from the New York Timesbestselling author of Dragon Seed and The Good Earth. Burma is under attack from the Japanese army, and a unit of Chinese soldiers is sent to aid endangered Br...

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A young Chinese woman falls in love with a Jewish man in nineteenth-century China in this evocative novel by the Nobel Prizewinning author of The Good Earth. In 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish fami...

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An ';absorbing and fast-moving' saga of Korea as experienced by one unforgettable family, from the Nobel Prizewinning author of The Good Earth (The New York Times). ';The year was 4214 after Tangun of Korea, and 1881 after Jesus of Judea.' So begi...

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Four Chinese-American siblings make an emotional journey to their ancestral home in this novel from the Nobel and Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Good Earth. Dr. Liang is a comfortably well-off professor of Confucian philosophy who fled China ...

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The Pulitzer Prizewinning, New York Timesbestselling novel about a peasant farmer and his family in early twentieth-century China.The Good Earth is Buck's classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. W...

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The classic tale of a Japanese boy orphaned by a tsunami from the author of The Good Earth, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. On a mountainside in Japan, two boys enjoy a humble life governed by age-old customs. Jiya b...

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A ';groundbreaking' memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudicea classic that helped transform our perceptions (Publishers Weekly). It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people ...

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Within this novel Ms. Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with the new ideals of the comm...

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In the 1930s, as her second marriage approaches, a brilliant and independent sculptor faces tensions between her art and everyday life in this novel by the author of The Good Earth. This Proud Heart narrates the experience of a gifted sculptor and...

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A Chinese dissident is torn between love and country in this novel from the New York Timesbestselling author of The Good Earth. When Wu I-wan starts taking an interest in revolution, trouble follows: Winding up in prison, he becomes friends with f...

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