The Eternal Wonder - by Pearl S Buck (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><b>Lost for forty years, a new novel by the author of <i>The Good Earth</i></b><i><br>The Eternal Wonder</i> tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever--and, ultimately, to love.<br>Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has no contact with her American mother, who abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Both Rann and Stephanie yearn for a sense of genuine identity. Rann feels plagued by his voracious intellectual curiosity and strives to integrate his life of the mind with his experience in the world. Stephanie feels alienated from society by her mixed heritage and struggles to resolve the culture clash of her existence. Separated for long periods of time, their final reunion leads to a conclusion that even Rann, in all his hard-earned wisdom, could never have imagined.<br>A moving and mesmerizing fictional exploration of the themes that meant so much to Pearl Buck in her life, <i>The Eternal Wonder</i> is perhaps her most personal and passionate work, and will no doubt appeal to the millions of readers who have treasured her novels for generations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>Lost for forty years, a new novel by the author of <i>The Good Earth</i></b><i><br>The Eternal Wonder</i> tells the coming-of-age story of Randolph Colfax (Rann for short), an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever--and, ultimately, to love.<br>Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has no contact with her American mother, who abandoned the family when Stephanie was six years old. Both Rann and Stephanie yearn for a sense of genuine identity. Rann feels plagued by his voracious intellectual curiosity and strives to integrate his life of the mind with his experience in the world. Stephanie feels alienated from society by her mixed heritage and struggles to resolve the culture clash of her existence. Separated for long periods of time, their final reunion leads to a conclusion that even Rann, in all his hard-earned wisdom, could never have imagined.<br>A moving and mesmerizing fictional exploration of the themes that meant so much to Pearl Buck in her life, <i>The Eternal Wonder</i> is perhaps her most personal and passionate work, and will no doubt appeal to the millions of readers who have treasured her novels for generations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>REVIEW QUOTES: PRAISE FOR <i>THE GOOD EARTH</i></b><b><i> </i></b>"[Buck] did for the working people of twentieth-century China something of what Dickens had done for London's nineteenth-century poor." --Hilary Spurling, author of <i>Pearl Buck in China</i> "One need never have lived in China or know anything about the Chinese to understand [<i>The Good Earth</i>] or respond to its appeal." --<i>Boston Evening Transcript </i> "One of the most important and revealing novels of our time." --<i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette </i> "A comment upon the meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of the globe." --<i>The New York Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize-winning author. Her classic novel <i>The Good Earth</i> (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women's rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents. For her body of work, Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so. She died in Vermont.
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