by Pearl S. Buck · Debols!llo · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788497598552
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«Viento del este, viento del oeste» is the novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Debolsillo in paperback (256 pages, in Spanish).
A novel about a distinguished Chinese family clinging to ancestral traditions: the penetration of Western ideas causes conflicts between parents and children. Young Kwei-lan marries a man influenced by Western culture, who rejects her; to win his love she must adapt to new customs amid the cultural clash.
Part of the Debolsillo Best Seller collection (no. 117). Translated by G. and L. Gosse; originally published as East Wind, West Wind in 1930.
For readers aged 14 and up interested in classic fiction, the great classics of world literature, and the cultural clash between East and West.
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.
