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1932 · 279 — <p>Pearl S. Buck 1892-1973 was an American author best known for her historical fiction set in China. Her novel The Good Earth won the Pulitzer Prize and in 1938 she was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.</p><p>Buck's works set in China come from her first-hand experience living there. Her parents were missionaries in China but returned to the U.S. for Pearl's birth. When Pearl was five months old they all returned to China where Pearl went to school. She left China in 1911 to go to school in the U.S. but returned in 1914 where she married and moved to Suzhou in Anhui Province the setting for her House of Earth trilogy.</p><p>In the 1920s Buck began publishing stories in various magazines including Nation The Chinese Recorder Asia and Atlantic Monthly. In 1930 she published her first novel with the John Day Company entitled East Wind West Wind. Ultimately she would go on to have a very successful and prolific writing career publishing over seventy novels.</p><p>Sons is the second book the House of Earth trilogy sequel to the Pulitzer-Prize winning The Good Earth. The book continues the story of a Chinese family in Anhwei covering the events following the death of the patriarch.</p><p>This copy is in Good condition. There is some fading staining and minor wear to the fabric covering the boards. There is some movement in the spine and binding but all pages remain firmly attached. There is a tear to the front pastedown and some staining to the pages but nothing that affects the text.</p> John Day Company hardcover