EBOOK Pearl of China

In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; Pearl is the daughter of a Christian missionary who desperately wishes she was Chinese too. Neither could have foreseen the transformation of the little American girl embarrassed by her blonde hair into the Nobel Prize-winning writer and one of China&'s modern heroines, Pearl S. Buck. When the country erupts in civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists, Pearl and Willow are brutally reminded of their differences. Pearl&'s family is forced to flee the country and Willow is punished for her loyalty to her cultural imperialist&' friend. And yet, in the face of everything that threatens to tear them apart, the paths of these two women remain intimately entwined.