by Pearl S. Buck · PLAZA & JANÉS EDITORES, S.A · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401497650
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«La Gran Dama» is the historical novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (512 pages, in Spanish).
Novel about Tzu-Hsi, narrating her life before and after entering the Imperial Palace of the Forbidden City and her position in the Manchu court. It describes the intrigues among the emperor's concubines, the role of the eunuchs, power struggles, and political challenges with the arrival of the West in an empire in crisis.
The work was originally published in English as 'Imperial Woman' (1956); this Spanish edition is from 1989.
For readers of historical fiction and fiction set in imperial China, with a female protagonist and the Manchu court setting.
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.
