{"product_id":"burying-the-bones-pearl-bucks-life-in-china-9781861978288","title":"Burying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBurying the Bones: Pearl Buck's Life in China\u003c\/strong\u003e by Hilary Spurling. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781861978288.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a thrilling portrait of the extraordinary childhood of Pearl Buck, the now-forgotten bestselling Nobel Prize winning novelist. Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents, Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde and blue-eyed she looked startlingly foreign, but felt as at home as her Chinese companions. She ran free on the grave-littered grasslands behind her house, often stumbling across the tiny bones of baby girls who had been suffocated at birth. Bucks father was a terrifying figure, with a maniacal zeal for religious conversion - a passion rarely shared by the local communities he targeted. He drained the familys budget for his Chinese translation of the New Testament, while his aggrieved, long-suffering wife did her utmost to create a homely environment for her children, several of whom died tragically young. Pearl Buck would eventually rise to eminence in America as a bestselling author, but in this startlingly original biography, Spurling recounts with elegance and great insight her unspeakable upbringing in a China that was virtually unknown to the West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Profile Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44623523250229,"sku":"ByrdShop_1861978286","price":32.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_1861978286_5f24347b-9bbe-4f7d-9a0a-73d196fa167d.jpg?v=1784228286","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/burying-the-bones-pearl-bucks-life-in-china-9781861978288","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}