by Pearl S. Buck · Orbis · tapa dura · ISBN 9788475306599
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«Viento del este, viento del oeste» is the novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Orbis in hardcover (154 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows Kwei-lan, a young Chinese woman educated in tradition, married to a doctor who has studied in the West. Through her eyes, the novel shows the clash between ancestral customs and Western ideas, and how the protagonist tries to reconcile both worlds in her process of self-discovery.
It belongs to the Biblioteca Grandes Éxitos collection, number 49, with a translation by G. and L. Gosse.
Readers interested in traditional China, cultural clash, and Pearl S. Buck's narrative.
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.
