Pearl of China

Author: Anchee Min
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Kindle Edition
ISBN: B003HD2L0E

Pearl of China

It is the end of the nineteenth century and China is riding on the crest of great change, but for nine-year-old Willow, the only child of a destitute family in the small southern town of Chin-kiang, nothing ever seems to change. Get Pearl of China literature books for free.
Until the day she meets Pearl, the eldest daughter of a zealous American missionary.Pearl is head-strong, independent and fiercely intelligent, and will grow up to be Pearl S Buck, the Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning writer and humanitarian activist, but for now all Willow knows is that she has never met anyone like her in all her life. From the start the two are thick as thieves, but when the Boxer Rebellion rocks the nation, Pearl's family is forced to leave China to flee religious persecution. As the twentieth century Check Pearl of China our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.

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