The Three Daughters Of Madame Liang
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the turbulent landscape of post-revolutionary China, Pearl S. Buck's The Three Daughters of Madame Liang chronicles the story of a formidable matriarch who has mastered the art of survival — running an elegant Shanghai restaurant while quietly shielding her family from the crushing ideological tides of Mao's new order. Her three daughters, each shaped by vastly different experiences of East and West, return to a homeland they barely recognise, and their individual choices force a reckoning with questions of loyalty, identity, and the price of progress. Buck builds her narrative with measured tension, drawing the reader into a world where a mother's love is both armour and burden, and where a single wrong word can unravel a life built over decades. Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, brings her characteristic empathy and moral clarity to this late-career novel, weaving together the intimate and the epic with the assurance of a writer who spent a lifetime bridging two civilisations. Her prose is lucid and restrained, yet charged with an emotional intelligence that transforms a family drama into a meditation on cultural collision, the bonds of kinship, and the impossible weight of a changing world. The Three Daughters of Madame Liang stands as a quietly devastating portrait of womanhood under pressure — and a reminder that the fiercest battlegrounds are often found within the walls of a family home.
Author: Pearl S. Buck
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
In the turbulent landscape of post-revolutionary China, Pearl S. Buck's The Three Daughters of Madame Liang chronicles the story of a formidable matriarch who has mastered the art of survival — running an elegant Shanghai restaurant while quietly shielding her family from the crushing ideological tides of Mao's new order. Her three daughters, each shaped by vastly different experiences of East and West, return to a homeland they barely recognise, and their individual choices force a reckoning with questions of loyalty, identity, and the price of progress. Buck builds her narrative with measured tension, drawing the reader into a world where a mother's love is both armour and burden, and where a single wrong word can unravel a life built over decades. Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, brings her characteristic empathy and moral clarity to this late-career novel, weaving together the intimate and the epic with the assurance of a writer who spent a lifetime bridging two civilisations. Her prose is lucid and restrained, yet charged with an emotional intelligence that transforms a family drama into a meditation on cultural collision, the bonds of kinship, and the impossible weight of a changing world. The Three Daughters of Madame Liang stands as a quietly devastating portrait of womanhood under pressure — and a reminder that the fiercest battlegrounds are often found within the walls of a family home.