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“COMPELLED TO THE FUTURE”: KINFOLK, INSCRIBED AT LENGTH BY PEARL S. BUCK

BUCK, Pearl S. Kinfolk. New York: John Day, (1949). Octavo, original russet cloth, original dust jacket..

First edition of Buck’s postwar novel crossing two continents, inscribed, “Pearl S. Buck. Kinfolk is a novel of modern China, whose people are rooted in past ages, while they are compelled to the future.”

The legacy of Pearl Buck, the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature, continues with renewed appreciation from American readers and “a new generation of Chinese intellectuals.” In the words of her Chinese translator, a professor of English at Nanjing University, Pearl Buck is “a revolutionary? Many of us feel we should include Buck as part of Chinese literature” (Meyer, New York Times Book Review). A fine copy.