by Pearl S. Buck · Plaza & Janés · tapa dura · ISBN 9788401811722
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«Viento del este, viento del oeste» is the novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Plaza & Janés in hardcover (256 pages, in Spanish).
The story follows Kwei-lan, a young Chinese woman educated in her family's traditions, who marries a doctor trained in the West. The clash between ancestral customs and new Western ideas marks their relationship and forces her to rediscover herself and understand the family conflicts that this meeting of cultures provokes.
The novel was originally published in 1930 as East Wind, West Wind. The cover of this edition features the mention «Gran Antología de la Literatura Universal del Siglo XX».
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.
