Bücher von Pearl S. Buck

A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the life and labours of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country's last emperor

China Sky, first published in 1941, is a romance by Pearl S. Buck set in war-time China. Dr. Gray Thompson, an American missionary doctor, works alongside Dr. Sara Durand in a hospital he has built in a small Chinese village, as Japanese forces approach. When Gray returns from a visit to America a trip, he shocks Sara (who is in love with him) by introducing his new socialite wife, Louise. In the midst of bombing attacks on the village, Dr. Thompson continues to help the local residents, and especially the insurgent leader Chen-Ta. To protect the hospital, a high-ranking Japanese prisoner gets a message to the Japanese commander which stops the bombing but, eventually, Japanese paratroopers land in the village, and fierce fighting ensues. China Sky was also the subject of a 1945 movie of the same name. Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 and was the author of numerous novels, short-stories and works of non-fiction.

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Die Geschichte einer großen Liebe Seit ihrer Kindheit wurde die junge Chinesin Kuei-lan auf ihre Hochzeit vorbereitet. Als der lang ersehnte Tag da ist, passiert etwas Unerwartetes: Ihr unbekannter Bräutigam, der in den Vereinigten Staaten Medizin studiert hat, findet keinen Gefallen an ihrer Bereitschaft, ihm zu dienen. Stattdessen wünscht er sich eine selbstbewusste und gleichberechtigte Partnerin. Trotz ihrer Verunsicherung nimmt sie aus Liebe den steinigen Weg auf sich.»Nichts und niemand kann die Menschen Chinas zerstören. Sie sind unnachgiebige Überlebende.« Pearl S. Buck