East Wind

Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winner Pearl S. Buck's first published novel (1930), EAST WIND, WEST WIND tells, through a first person monologue, the story of Kwei-lan, a young Chinese girl married to an older, Western-educated doctor. Kwei-lan describes simply and straightforwardly the events of her life--the quotidian tasks that make up her routine, as well as the tumultuous moments when her life has taken radical new directions. Kwei-lan tells her story to as Western woman she calls "Sister," who has been interpreted as a stand-in for Buck, and she often reflects on how her attitudes about Westerners and their ideas and traditions have evolved.