by Pearl S. Buck · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422600534
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«Viento del este, viento del oeste» is the novel by Pearl S. Buck published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover, in Spanish.
The young Kwei-lan, daughter of a wealthy Chinese patriarch, marries a man transformed by Western culture, who rejects traditions and his wife. She must adapt to new customs and understand the family tensions caused by the clash between East and West, in a portrait of China at the time.
The edition dates from 1973; the novel was originally published in 1930 under the title East Wind, West Wind.
For readers of historical fiction and classics interested in China and the clash between tradition and modernity.
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.
