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I remember plucking this book off the shelf at my grandparents' house because I had always heard about it. It "read like a classic" at first, but soon I got caught up in its ease. (And by the way it is not an insult from me to say "read like a classic" seeing as my favorite novels are War & Peace and Candide, but there's a certain feeling I mean to evoke by that. And then Pearl Buck mixes it up. It's so interesting to contemplate the expat life and especially from the viewpoint of a woman early
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What can I say? Pearl S. Buck's books are always amazing to me! Particularly from this one I learn to see my life from a different point of view. Richness and poverty are just streets in our map of life. They will get you into another path of life!
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A True Classic Book. Loved it!!!!
Mar 28, 2008
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Jun 26, 2009
Daisy
marked it as to-read
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