Pearl S. Buck - Mandala: A Novel of India, 1970
Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize winner, Pearl S. Buck, was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the 20th century. This is a FIRST EDITION of Come My Beloved, published in 1953 by John Day Publishing.
ABOUT THE STORY (Courtesy of Amazon)
News reaches Maharana Prince Jagat and his wife, Moti, that their only son, Jai, has been killed by the Chinese in a border skirmish. An inconsolable Moti sends Jagat out to bring the boy's spirit home. On the journey, the prince becomes involved with a beautiful and mysterious young American woman. Thus begins the fatal attraction between Eastern and Western ways, one bound by rigid custom, the other temptingly ripe with free thinking.
BIXLEY NOTES
• Mandala: A Novel of India
• Written by Pearl S. Buck
• Published by John Day in association with Reynal & Hitchcock, 1970
• 376 pages
• Linen hardcover with dust jacket
VINTAGE NOTES
• In good condition.
• Binding is nice and tight
• No apparent shelf wear on the hardcover
• Dust jacket is a bit worn with tiny creases and tears along the edges and some white residue from a label on the cover.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu (Chinese: 赛珍珠), was an American writer and novelist. In October 1892, her family took the 4-month-old baby girl to China. As the daughter of missionaries to China, and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang. The family spent their summers in a villa in Kuling town, Mountain Lu, Jiujiang, and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer. The Good Earth was the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck won the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces." She was the first American woman to win the prize.
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