THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF MADAME LIANG
by PEARL S BUCK
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0381980553
- ISBN 13
- 9780381980559
- Seller
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West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Pearl S Buck (1892-1973) was an American novelist who, in 1938, became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
In this book, after her husband takes a concubine, Madame Liang sets out on her own, starting an upscale restaurant and sending her daughters to America to be educated. But her two eldest daughters are called back to serve the People's Republic. Her oldest daughter is a doctor. Things are not as easy for her daughter Mercy, a musician who is not in demand in the People's Republic, nor for her new husband who she has brought back to China with her. Watching her two daughters grow apart and knowing that her youngest daughter will never return, Madame Liang must also face the challenges of The Cultural Revolution, and keep herself alive.
Book of the Month Club Edition, 1969.
With dust jacket. The jacket has a few little tears, on the spine. Other than that, this book is pristine.
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Synopsis
Madame Liang moves to America and brings her three daughters along to raise them there while running a successful restaurant. China, now controlled by The People's Republic, calls two of her daughters back to work for their country, where they must find themselves and fit in with the structure of the New China.
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Details
- Seller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 668
- Title
- THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF MADAME LIANG
- Author
- PEARL S BUCK
- Format/Binding
- Perfect
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0381980553
- ISBN 13
- 9780381980559
- Publisher
- The John Day Company
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 1969
- Keywords
- Nobel Prize, People's Republic of China, Cultural Revolution
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Fiction; Asian/Eastern Art, Culture, History;
Terms of Sale
Louise Aird
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