Kinfolk
A Novel of China
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4.5 • 34 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Four Chinese-American siblings make an emotional journey to their ancestral home in this novel from the Nobel and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Good Earth.
Dr. Liang is a comfortably well-off professor of Confucian philosophy who fled China because of the government’s crackdown on intellectuals. Now, settled in 1940s New York, he believes in the notion of a pure and unchanging homeland. Under his influence, Liang’s four grown children make the momentous decision to move to China, despite having spent their whole lives in the United States. But as the siblings try in various ways to adjust to a new place and culture, they learn that the definition of home is far different from what they expected.
Kinfolk is the involving story of an American family and literary fiction of the highest order. The New York Times–bestselling author of Dragon Seed, China Sky, and many other novels, explores the complexities of immigration, multiculturalism, nationality, and the primordial human longing to find our roots. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Nobel Prize–winning author Pearl S. Buck takes us on an evocative journey to 1940s Beijing, making us feel like we are strolling through the city’s autumn chrysanthemum market and wandering down its quiet back alleys. Kinfolk tells the story of the Chinese American Liang family just after World War II. Against their father’s wishes, the four New York–raised Liang children decide to make the momentous leap of moving to China to discover their cultural heritage. Each of the young adults experiences the country from a unique perspective, but they all experience shock and revelations. Buck grew up in China with American parents, so she brings an insider’s perspective to the experience of straddling two different worlds. Her novel is a gorgeous portrait of a family and of postwar China—and of the beauty, resilience, and turmoil they both contain.
