by Pearl S. Buck · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401324970
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«Viento del este, viento del oeste» is the novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (156 pages, in Spanish).
Kwei-lan, a young Chinese woman educated in tradition, accepts an arranged marriage with a doctor who has studied in the West. He encourages her to adopt a modern mindset while she adapts to her new life; the return of her brother with an American wife triggers a family conflict and confronts cultural and racial prejudices.
Work originally published in 1930 under the title East Wind, West Wind; this Spanish edition appeared in 1993.
For readers of classic and historical fiction interested in cultural clash and early 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.
