by Pearl S. Buck · Plaza & Janés · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788401497636
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«La estirpe del dragón» is the novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Plaza & Janés in paperback (318 pages, in Spanish).
Set in a village near Nanking, the narrative follows a group of Chinese peasants who see the Japanese invasion destroy their lands and their way of life. Between flight and submission, the protagonist family tries to maintain its dignity, while guerrilla groups emerge that embody the people's resistance against the invader.
This novel is a translation of Dragon's Seed, published in Spanish in 1994 within the Los JET collection by Plaza & Janés.
Novel for readers of classic fiction interested in the impact of World War II on rural China.
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.
