by Pearl S. Buck · ISBN 9788401909979
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«La Madre» is Pearl S. Buck's novel, published by Plaza & Janés (253 pages, in Spanish).
The narrative follows a peasant woman in rural China who must bring up her children in a hostile environment. Amid hard work and losses, the protagonist confronts adversity with fortitude and maternal love, and the story portrays her dignity and her ability to support her family in the face of an unrelenting fate.
The Spanish-language edition of «La Madre» appeared in 1987 and falls under the category Literature and Fiction.
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.
