Letter From Peking Pearl S. Buck HC Vintage

Title:  Letter From Peking
Author:  Pearl S. Buck
Copyright:  1957 by Pearl S. Buck (no other dates or printings noted). First edition
Publisher:  The John Day Company
Measures:  8 1/4" X 5 3/4"
Page count:  252
Binding:  hardcover, rust colored cloth with gilt impressed decoration on cover and spine

Condition: Not an ex-library, no inscriptions. The cover and pages are intact and in very nice condition. The dustjacket has edgewear.

Description:

Letter from Peking is a tender and suspenseful story of love in a world split apart, love struggling against the barriers of race, politics, distance, and misunderstanding.

The time is today, the setting Vermont with flashbacks to China. The protagonist, is an American woman whose husband Gerald - half Chinese has elected to stay in Peking under communism while she returns to live in America.

A counterpoint to their continuing love is the search of their quarter chinese son, Rennie, who has just reached manhood, for a love that will yield him happiness instead of the frustration his parents have reaped. Around them move the others who make up their world: Gerald's father, a Scotsman from Virginia who began it all by marrying a Chinese wife and for whom Elizabeth is now caring in his last years; the good Chinese woman.