Pearl of China

Name: Pearl of China
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Anchee Min
ISBN: 9781440792472

Author: Anchee Min

Narrator: Angela Lin

Unabridged: 10 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/14/2010

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction

Synopsis

An internationally best-selling author, Anchee Min draws upon her Chinese heritage to pen lush historical epics. Here she transports listeners to the Far East for a fictionalized account of acclaimed author Pearl Buck's youth. Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed relationships, and world conflicts threaten all they hold dear.

About Anchee Min

Anchee Min was born in Shanghai in 1957. As a child, she became a model member of the Red Guard. At seventeen she was sent to work on a communal farm, from which she was plucked by Madame Mao's associates to become a star of the Chinese propaganda film industry. After the death of Mao in 1976, Anchee Min was disgraced. She left China for the U.S. in 1984; she now lives in California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tessa

"Forta interioara este mult mai importanta decat talentul, mi-a destainuit Hsu Chih-mo. Scrisul e orezul meu si aerul meu. Nimeni n-ar trebui sa se deranjeze sa ia condeiul in mana daca nu simte asa." New York Times spunea despre Anchee Min ca este o scriitoare paradoxala. Ea este admirata in China d......more

Goodreads review by Annette

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973) was an American writer and novelist. As a daughter of missionaries, she spent most of her life before 1937 in China. She received Pulitzer Prize for The Good Earth and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant......more