Synopsis
Pearl Buck grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. She was the child of American missionaries but spoke Chinese before she learned English. She took it for granted she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the Boxers' terrorist uprising forced her family to flee for their lives. Flood, famine, drought, bandits and war formed the background of her life in China.
Pearl was the first person since Marco Polo to open China up to the West. She recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people in The Good Earth, a worldwide bestseller in 1932 that transfixed a whole generation of readers and won her the Nobel Prize for Literature.
[Here is] the haunting story of Pearl Buck, a writer torn between her Chinese life and her American roots.
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About the Author
Hilary Spurling is the author of the universally acclaimed biography of Henri Matisse which was the Whitbread Book of the Year in 2005. Her biography of Ivy Compton-Burnett won the Heinemann and Duff Cooper prizes. She has also written biographies of Paul Scott and La Grande Therese (Profile). She has been an arts critic for the Spectator, Observer and Telegraph, and lives in London.
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Boldly conceived and magnificently written ... a triumphant landmark in the development of creative biography. -- Elaine Showalter * Literary Review * Thrilling ... Spurling, who has never written a dull sentence, also has magic power as a writer -- Frances Wilson * Sunday Times * A terrific story, told with rare intelligence and refinement -- George Walden * Mail on Sunday * A subtle and masterly book -- Victoria Glendinning * Spectator * A biographical masterpiece -- Jackie Wullschlager * Financial Times * Elegant and sympathetic ... an illuminating and compelling biography. -- Isabel Hilton * Guardian * Superb ... a terrific story, told with rare intelligence and refinement -- George Walden * Mail on Sunday * Written with the grace and imaginative sympathy of a first-class novel ... [it] has an enduring bright intelligence and is one of the books of the year -- Richard Davenport-Hines * Sunday Telegraph * Spurling's style and the addictive character of her subject make it an intriguing read -- Andrew Holgate * Sunday Times * Riveting and timely * Times * Burying the Bones does superb justice to this forgotten American novelist's pioneering bid to explain China to the West. -- Sally Magnusson * Scotland on Sunday *
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