Pearl of China by Anchee Min
By Anchee MinIt is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary.Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. As the twentieth century unfolds in all its turmoil, through right-wing military coups and Mao's Red Revolution, through bad marriages and broken dreams, the two girls cling to their lifelong friendship across the sea.In this ambitious and moving new novel, Anchee Min, acclaimed author of "Empress Orchid "and "Red Azalea," brings to life a courageous and passionate woman who loved the country of her childhood and who has been hailed in China as a modern heroine.
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Book details
- Hardcover
- 278 pages
- English
- 1596916974
- 9781596916975
About Anchee Min
anchee min was born in shanghai in 1957. at seventeen she was sent to a labor collective, where a talent scout for madame mao's shanghai film studio recrui Read More about Anchee Min
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