by Hilary Spurling · Circe · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788477652915
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«Pearl S. Buck» is the biography of Pearl S. Buck written by Hilary Spurling, published by Circe in 2012 in paperback (400 pages, in Spanish).
The book reconstructs the life of Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973), the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, and focuses on her childhood and youth in traditional China, in the midst of transformation towards the twentieth century. It also addresses the success of The Good Earth, the Pulitzer Prize, her defense of the underprivileged, and the political controversies that marked her in the 1950s.
Hilary Spurling's original work, «Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck in China», was published in 2010 and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the Spanish edition is from 2012 and belongs to Circe's Biografía collection.
For readers of literary biographies and Chinese history, with an interest in the figure of Pearl S. Buck.
