Burying The Bones

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Pearl Buck was raised in China by her American parents Presbyterian missionaries from Virginia. Blonde & 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 (her most renowned work The Good Earth" re-entered the bestseller charts in 2004 when it was selected for Oprahs Book Club) but in this startlingly original biography Spurling recounts with elegance & great insight her unspeakable upbringing in a China that was virtually unknown to the West."