by Pearl S. Buck · Plaza & Janés · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401497674
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«La promesa» is the historical novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (320 pages, in Spanish).
During World War II, it portrays Chinese resistance to the Japanese occupation: a unit of soldiers goes to Burma to rescue a besieged Allied detachment, while the Japanese attack the Burma Road. Between danger and ingratitude, they must choose between abandoning or continuing a nearly suicidal mission.
Spanish translation by A. Gallart. The original, The Promise, was published in 1943; this edition, in 1994.
For readers of historical fiction set in wartime China and the Asian front of World War II.
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.
