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East Wind: West Wind

Pearl S. Buck

Paperback | Pages: 288 pages

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Title	:	East Wind: West Wind
Author	:	Pearl S. Buck
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	April 5th 1995 by Moyer Bell and its subsidiaries (first published 1930)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. China. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asia

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East Wind, West Wind originally titled Winds of Heaven was Pearl S. Buck's first novel published in the United States in 1930. Though it had gone through many earlier rejections, the acceptance to publish eventually came down to one final vote by Richard Walsh, the president of the publishing company (and who would become Pearl's second husband). He later revealed that he decided to publish it, " not because he liked it, but because he thought her capable of something better."

The story is told from the point of view of Kwei-lan, a Chinese girl raised strictly under the old Eastern traditions, newly married to a Chinese man who has studied medicine in the West. The grievous story of her marriage begins on her wedding night when her husband appears repulsed by her. The marriage goes unconsummated. Buck portrays the conflicts of a marriage with its origins in mixed ideology, the differences between Kwei-lan's Eastern manner of life and that of a "foreigner", and the philosophy behind the many ancient Chinese traditions that have kept the female servile to the male. I was mostly moved by Kwei-lan's sense of identity loss, as one partner feels the need to adapt to the other.

Hilary Spurling in her biography "Pearl Buck in China: A Journey to The Good Earth," pointed out some similarities of persons in Pearl's life that were incorporated in some of the characters of this novel.

There was good thematic material here but I felt the plots were weak. I definitely saw the impotence of a first novel in East Wind, West Wind, having read some of Buck's more significant novels to follow. This wasn't bad, but to parrot Mr. Walsh, Buck was capable of something better. That was proven in her next novel, The Good Earth.

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Original Title:	East Wind, West Wind
ISBN:	1559210869 (ISBN13: 9781559210867)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4 From 5389 Users | 415 Reviews

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Kwei-lan has been raised rigidly within the centuries-old customs of the Middle Kingdom - the separation of the male and female worlds, marriages arranged at birth, the rigid etiquette, the bound feet, concubinage etc.The man who is about to become her husband, a doctor, has been educated abroad and been thoroughly Westernised by the experience. All of Kwei-lan's ideas about the role of a wife are about to be challenged, for better or worse.This is a plainly written novel with a narrative which

I love this book! I love learning about other cultures and Eastwind: West Wind is a wonderful way to do that. The story is one of two women one from China and one from the United States and their marraiges. A wonderful introduction to Pearl S. Buck. I had to read more books by her after I finished this one!

East Wind, West Wind originally titled Winds of Heaven was Pearl S. Buck's first novel published in the United States in 1930. Though it had gone through many earlier rejections, the acceptance to publish eventually came down to one final vote by Richard Walsh, the president of the publishing company (and who would become Pearl's second husband). He later revealed that he decided to publish it, " not because he liked it, but because he thought her capable of something better." The story is told

Beautiful book that portrays the fast and overwhelming changes that happened during the XX century in China. I value the fact that the story is very simple; it is just about a young woman who starts to see her country and her culture from a new perspective. There aren't many characters or scenarios, because the story basically occurs within the walls of a couple of houses. But still, Pearl S. Buck is able to clearly and yet misteriously show the challenges that an entire society must have faced

First book of a wonderful writer, which seems to get very little attention this year. First women to receive the Nobel Literature prize. What I love about this book and all of Pearl S Buck's book she really understand the lives of Chinese women and tells their stories, rich or poor, beautiful or not, as they must have been. Not romanticised and really with lots of understanding, empathy and knowledge. Her most famous book The Good Earth is one of my all-time favourite books which I have re-read

At certain point during 1960s, as reflection of post-WW2 prosperity and typical sign of middle-class conventionality, many homes in my country had bookshelves adorned with collected works of writers like Fyodor Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy and (for some reason) Pearl Buck. I have my doubts about who actually ever read them but here they were, lined perfectly in their red hardback editions, ready to impress visitors who would secretly gape with admiration at this sign of host's good taste (another

Wonderfully written book. The emotion with which the narrator tells her story seeps through the pages. I felt her pain, her joys, her fear and her love. Very thought provoking and evocative. Loved it!