Peony: A Novel of China

✍ Pearl S. Buck 📂 Fiction 📅 2012;2015 🏛 Open Road;Moyer Bell 🌐 en-us ⚖ 739 KB 👁 3 views

The Nobel Prize-winning author's perceptive fable of cross-cultural passions in nineteenth-century China In 1850s China, a young girl, Peony, is sold to work as a bondmaid for a rich Jewish family in Kaifeng. Jews have lived for centuries in this region of the country, but by the mid-nineteenth cen

Peony: A Novel of China

✍ Buck, Pearl S. 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries 🌐 English ⚖ 755 KB

Overview: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first ha

Peony: A Novel of China

✍ Buck, Pearl S 📂 Fiction 📅 2012 🏛 Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries 🌐 English ⚖ 346 KB

Overview: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first ha

Peony in love a novel: novel

📂 Fiction 🌐 English ⚖ 200 KB

The jade peony: a novel

✍ Wayson Choy 📂 Fiction 📅 2007;2018 🏛 Other Press;University of British Columbia Crane L 🌐 English ⚖ 161 KB 👁 2 views

### Amazon.com Review *The Jade Peony*, Wayson Choy's first novel and a RUSA Notable Book, is a genre-bending, memoirlike collection of stories about a family in Vancouver's Chinatown before and during World War II. Three siblings tell the stories of their very different childhoods in a world defin

The jade peony: a novel

✍ Wayson Choy 📂 Fiction 📅 2011;2018 🏛 Douglas & McIntyre;University of British Columbia 🌐 English ⚖ 158 KB 👁 2 views