Pearl of China

ISBN-13: 9781408809792 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str.

Anchee Min

Opis

In the town of Chin-kiang, two girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family. Pearl is the daughter of Christian missionaries. She will grow up to become Pearl S. Buck, the Nobel Prize-winning writer and activist, but for now she is just a girl enchanted by her new Chinese friend.

Recenzje

'A powerful paean to love and friendship' Daily Mail

O autorze

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 recruited her to work as a movie actress. She moved to the United States in 1984. Her first memoir, Red Azalea, was an international bestseller, published in twenty countries. She has since published six novels, including the Richard & Judy choice Empress Orchid and, most recently, Pearl of China.