by Pearl S. Buck · Ediciones G.P. · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401909382
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«La promesa» is a novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Ediciones G.P. in 1984 (319 pages, in Spanish).
The story is set in China and follows characters trapped between tradition and change, while love, war, and redemption run through their stories. The novel portrays human relationships in a cultural context marked by tensions between the old and the new.
Translation by A. Gallart of the original «The Promise». It belongs to the collection Gran reno (number 38).
For readers of historical novels and fiction set in China, as well as for those who appreciate the narrative of Pearl S. Buck.
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.
