Pearl of China : a novel
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Pearl of China : a novel
AUTHOR:
Min, Anchee, 1957-
閔安琪, 1957-
ISBN:
9781596916975
EDITION:
1st ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Bloomsbury, 2010
PHYSICAL_DESC:
278 p. ; 25 cm
ABSTRACT:
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.
SUBJECT:
| Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973 -- Fiction |
| Women novelists -- Fiction |
| Americans -- China -- Fiction |
| Friendship in children -- Fiction |
| Female friendship -- Fiction |
| China -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction |
| Biographical fiction |
BIBSUMMARY:
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.