by Pearl S. Buck · DEBOLSILLO · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9788499086354
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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).
The narrative follows Kwei-lan, a young Chinese woman educated in tradition, married to a doctor trained in the West. Through her eyes, the novel portrays the clash between her family's ancestral customs and the arrival of Western ideas, with the conflicts between parents and children that this encounter provokes.
The work was originally published in 1930 under the title East Wind, West Wind. Pearl S. Buck received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 for her body of work.
Suitable reading for young people from 14 years old and for readers of universal classics interested in 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.
