by Pearl S. Buck · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788484505839
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«Viento del este, viento del oeste» is the classic novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by Debolsillo in paperback, in Spanish.
Pearl S. Buck tells the story of Kwei-lan, a young Chinese woman brought up in tradition, married to a doctor of her own country who has returned from the West with new ideas. Their life together brings out the conflict between ancestral customs and modernity, and Kwei-lan must find her own path between two worlds.
The novel is set in China and was originally published in 1930 with the title East Wind, West Wind.
Recommended for readers of classic fiction interested in the encounter between tradition and modernity and in 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.
