by Pearl S. Buck · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401431166
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«La promesa» is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Plaza y Janés in paperback (320 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative is set in Japanese-occupied China and portrays the resistance of the Chinese people through peasants, merchants, guerrillas, students and courtiers. Among these characters stand out the farmer Ling Tan, his children and the young Mayli, immersed in a collective drama that blends the everyday and the epic.
Translated from English by Alfredo Gallart; the work was originally published as The Promise in 1943. The edition belongs to the Libros Reno collection (no. 116).
For readers of historical fiction and classic fiction interested in mid-20th-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.
