by Pearl S. Buck · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401497681
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«El ángel luchador» is the biography of Pearl S. Buck's father, written by her and published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (288 pages, in Spanish).
The work follows an American missionary who spent more than five decades travelling through China in an era of scarcity, violence and revolution. Pearl S. Buck reconstructs his journey and inner world, and in doing so portrays the encounter between Christian faith and Chinese culture, with its conflicts and contradictions.
Originally published as «Fighting Angel» in 1936, this title appeared in 1961 in the Los Jet Collection from Plaza & Janés.
For readers of biographies and classics interested in twentieth-century China and the work of Pearl S. Buck.
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.
