An ancient castle, a cash-strapped and psychologically unstable aristocratic couple, and the rumor of ghosts weave together in this sparkling historical mystery from Pearl S. Buck.
Sir Richard Sedgeley and Lady Mary are broke and...
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A Nobel laureate’s gripping historical novel about the Japanese invasion of Nanking.
Farmer Liang Tan knows only a quiet, traditional life in his remote Chinese farming community. When news filters in that Japanese forces are invading...
Nobel winner Pearl S. Buck’s classic debut novel, about one Chinese woman’s coming of age as she’s torn between Eastern and Western cultures.
Kwei-lan is a traditional Chinese girl — taught by her mother to submit in all things, “as a...
An enthralling tale, divided between China and America, of two friends inspired by radically opposed ideals.
This deeply felt novel tells the story of William Lane and Clem Miller, Americans who meet in China as youths at the end of the...
A tale of four Chinese-American siblings in New York, and their bewildering return to their roots.
In Kinfolk, a sharp dissection of the expatriate experience, Pearl S. Buck unfurls the story of a Chinese family living in New York. Dr....
At the outbreak of war, a half-Chinese man sends his family back to America, beginning an absence punctuated only by his letters, and a son who must make sense of his mixed-race ancestry alone.
Elizabeth and Gerald MacLeod are happily...
In this novel about dissidence and exile, a man is confronted with the decision to either desert his family or let his homeland be ravaged.
When Wu I-wan starts taking an interest in revolution, trouble follows: Winding up in prison, he...
The exhilarating novel of an elegant woman’s subversive new chapter in life.
At forty, Madame Wu is beautiful and much respected as the wife of one of China’s oldest upper-class houses. Her birthday wish is to find a young concubine for...
Young Peony is sold into a rich Chinese household as a bondmaid — an awkward role in which she is more a servant, but less a daughter. As she grows into a lovely, provocative young woman, Peony falls in love with the family's only son. However,...
Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast...