by Pearl S. Buck · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422613589
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«Bambú» is the historical novel by Pearl S. Buck published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover, with 376 pages, in Spanish.
The story, set in Korea, follows Ih-lan, adviser to the royal family, and his family over four generations. After the Japanese invasion and the death of the queen, Ih-lan is torn between his loyalty to his wife Sunia and to a queen who embodies the homeland, while his family takes part in the resistance against the occupation.
The English original, «The Living Reed», was published in 1963; the Spanish translation is by Carmen Soler Blanch.
For readers of historical fiction and Asian narrative, with an interest in Korean history.
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
