by Pearl S. Buck · Plaza y Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401497735
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Carta de Pekín» is the historical fiction novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Plaza y Janés in paperback (207 pages, in Spanish).
Gerard, son of a Chinese mother and a Scottish father, marries Elisabeth, a young American woman. When the communist regime is established in China, Gerard decides to remain in the country and Elisabeth returns with their son to the United States. The separation and correspondence between Gerard and Elisabeth sustain a plot about identity, love, and loyalty.
1993 edition in the Los Jet collection from Plaza y Janés. The novel was originally published as «Letter from Peking» in 1957.
For readers of classic and historical fiction and for those seeking stories set in twentieth-century China.
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.
