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 aloneElizabeth and Gerald MacLeod are happily married in China, bringing up their young son, Rennie. But when war
Letter from Peking A Novel
β Scribed by Pearl S. Buck
- Publisher
- Arrow (UK);Royal National Institute of the Blind
- Year
- 2013;2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 257 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0749302429
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β¦ Synopsis
This novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of "The Good Earth" and "Dragon Seed" tells the story of an American-Chinese family separated by the communist revolution in China, as they struggle to overcome difficulties and the prejudices a family of mixed blood must face.
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