000			01023nam a2200181 4500
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020			_a9781608193127
024			_a664234215
050			_aPS3563.I4614
082			_a813.54
100	1		_aAnchee Min
245	1		_aPearl of China
260			_bBloomsbury USA
300			_a304 pages
520			_aIn the small southern China town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves. Willow is the only child of a destitute family. Pearl is the headstrong daughter of Christian missionaries-and will grow up to become Pearl S. Buck, Nobel Prize-winning writer and activist. This unlikely pair becomes lifelong friends, confiding their beliefs and dreams, experiencing love and motherhood, and eventually facing civil war and exile. Pearl of China brings new color to the remarkable life of Pearl S. Buck, illuminated by the sweep of history and an intimate, unforgettable friendship.
650			_aHistorical Fiction
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