by Pearl S. Buck · Ediciones G. P. - Planeta - Plaza & Janes · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401434617
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«Carta de Pekín» is the novel by Pearl S. Buck published in paperback by Ediciones G. P. - Planeta - Plaza & Janes, in Spanish.
The novel focuses on the interracial marriage of Gerald and Elizabeth MacLeod, separated by the communist uprising in China in 1949: she remains in Peking and he moves to the United States. Through the distance, the work portrays love, separation and the difficulties of a relationship between cultures in a time of political upheaval.
Originally published as Letter from Peking (1957), this edition features a translation by Juan G. de Luaces and belongs to the Reno collection (no. 461).
For readers of fiction who enjoy stories of love, separation and historical conflicts such as China in 1949.
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.
