Presentation Editor: 1920. Kwei-lan "just married" without knowing it, a young Chinese man to whom she was promised even before his birth. This Chinese returning from Europe, he has forgotten the law of his ancestors, he does not respect the customs and rites. The brother of Kwei-Lan, the heir male, owner of the name and virtues of the race, which has spent three years in America, announces his marriage to a foreigner, he is back with her. Through feedback from members of this family of high condition where the attachment to traditions, ancestor worship, the authority of father and mother had still been no interference, the great novelist Pearl Buck makes us live intensely the often dramatic conflict between young and old China.
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Kwei-Lan tells us his story, his marriage preparation since her childhood and the "clash of cultures" between her husband and herself. Indeed, the latter having spent several years abroad in the West, although he folds some traditions, he wants to change some ... and to open the eyes of his young wife.
Pearl Buck speaks here once more the status of women in ancient China (foot binding, to marriage traditions, rituals). But here she also combines two generations: the older generation with their ancestral traditions and rituals, and the new one, which starts beyond the seas, back controvert some of their ancestral traditions that make the sentence longer.
Through the eyes of Kwei-Lan, as we have seen offended, to ignorance of her husband, who does not respect the traditions and dignity that includes slowly that the only way to win and trust him and listen. And their love will be born.
is a novel with lots of narrative, but so well written that the book reads easily.
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