Peony By Pearl S. Buck: A Novel of China- in Hebrew: -Hebrew Books Translated

Peon was sold to the family as a child, and in time becomes a central figure significantly in - almost a family member but still serves. She grew up to be a beautiful girl and falls in love with provocative and the only son of the family of Ezra, but they are prevented from marrying for reasons of tradition. Peon is torn between her desire to fulfill her love and loyalty to the family of Ezra and desire to fulfill its obligations and to comply with the limits status. "Depth investigations conducted by Pearl S.. Bak enabled it to revive 4,000 years old culture through careful drafting of the everyday characters and colorful and detailed description of routine life, marriage and burial customs." The New York Times Pearl's. Bak was born in 1892 in West Virginia, but as a child moved with her missionary parents to China, where joining a group of Chinese culture and studied it fully. At the age of eight - ten to the United States and acquired education. Then returned to China, married an American economist and adopted child of nine children. In 1934, forced to leave China following political tensions. She wrote eighty-five books and won the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938. Beck died in 1973.