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Book Description
From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the powerful
story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S. Buck.
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guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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Historical fiction
Comments ( 0) Add to My Stories Pearl Of China by Anchee Min (Bloomsbury £11.99) When Anchee Min left China to settle in the U.S. she discovered that Pearl S. Buck, whom she had been forced to denounce under the Cultural Revolution, was nothing like ... (read full critics)
dailymail published on Tue, 21 Sep 2010
2 Reviews
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Roger Humbke said on Jan 29, 2012 | Add your feedback
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This was my first exposure to Anchee Min, and I was not disappointed. A great historical novel with lush description and full of emotion without glurging it to death with romance. It also gave me a good overview of Pearl S. Buck's childhood and early adulthood. From here, I'm even more likely to pic ... (continue)
oleander said on Aug 16, 2010 | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Others 288 Pages
- ISBN-10: 1596916974
- ISBN-13: 9781596916975
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
- Pub date: Mar 30, 2010
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| 9781596916975 | Others | $24.00 | $17.28 | bn.com |
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Pearl of China by Anchee Min
The life of Pearl Buck, a missionary's daughter whose Chinese sagas made her a bestselling author and Nobel laureate, seems to beg for novelistic treatment. Anchee Min's well-meaning fictional biography of the writer sets out to be an epic of modern ... (read full critics)