Pavilion of Women (104a) by Pearl S. Buck

For a period of years, in the interval of much other writing, Pearl Buck has been at work on the massive novel which from its first conception has been called Pavilion of Women. To it she has devoted more time and more intense creative thought and imaginative feeling than to any other book she has ever written. In it she has been slowly distilling her most pungent memories of the Chinese life which she shared for decades.