Letter from Peking: A Novel

Name: Letter from Peking: A Novel
Rating: 4.454545497894287 (11 reviews)

Pearl S. Buck

May 2013 · Open Road Media

11 reviews

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232

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About this ebook

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth : the New York Times –bestselling novel of a Chinese-American family separated by war.

Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author

Elizabeth and Gerald MacLeod are happily married in China, bringing up their young son, Rennie. But when war breaks out with Japan, Gerald, who is half-Chinese, decides to send his wife and son back to America while he stays behind. In Vermont, Elizabeth longingly awaits his letters, but the Communists have forbidden him from sending international mail. Over time, both the silences and complications grow more painful: Gerald has taken up a new love and teenager Rennie struggles with his mixed-race heritage in America.

Rich with Buck's characteristic emotional wisdom, Letter from Peking focuses on the ordeal of a family split apart by race and history.

This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Good Earth : the New York Times –bestselling novel of a Chinese-American family separated by war. Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–Winning Author Elizabeth and Gerald MacLeod are happily married in China, bringing up their young son, Rennie. But when war break...

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Ratings and reviews

11 reviews

Rottie Weiler

May 5, 2025

It's always a treat for me to read a Pearl Buck story. I thought I had read all of her books, but this one was new to me. I truly enjoyed it.

Subha Mani Subha Mani

April 5, 2026

nice

Umesh Arakkal

November 11, 2014

Loved it.

About the author

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women's rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents. For her body of work, Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so. She died in Vermont.

Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in ...

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