by Pearl S. Buck · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401008580
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«Viento del este, viento del oeste» is the novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
The novel is set in a Chinese family and portrays the clash between tradition and modernity, as well as the encounter between Eastern and Western values through the personal relationships of its protagonists. Love, duty and identity run through a story that reflects the social changes of the era.
The edition was published in 1995; the corresponding ISBN-10 is 8401008581.
Recommended reading for fans of narrative fiction and stories about the encounter between cultures.
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.
