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Pearl of China

by Anchee Min · 2010

The National bestselling author's historical novel "creates a fanciful yet believable world for the Nobel laureate Pearl Buck" ( San Francisco Chronicle ). It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary. Pearl is headstrong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S. Buck, the Pulitzer– and Nobel Prize–win

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