- Japan, fiction, Fiction, Children's fiction, Boys, fiction
His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and effortless.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Pearl S. Buck
- First published
- 1947
- Pages
- 64
- Publisher
- Scholastic Inc, Scholastic, Incorporated, J. Day
- Editions
- 23
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780064401715
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“KIN LIVED on a farm.”
Pearl S. Buck had always lived in China except for the time she spent in the United States when she was being educated. She studied at Randolph-Macon College and at Cornell University. She taught at the University of Nanking and at the Government University in Nanking under two national regimes. She lived in Nanking during the 1930's. *The Good Earth* was Mrs. Buck's second published novel. *East Wind: West Wind* appeared under the John Day imprint in 1930. She contributed articles and stories to various magazines, among them *The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation*, and *Asia*.
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