East Wind: West Wind is a novel written by Pearl S. Buck in 1929, her first. It focuses on a Chinese woman, Kwei-lan, and the changes that she and her family undergo.
Read more about East Wind: West Wind: Plot Summary
Famous quotes containing the word west:
“It is said that a carpenter building a summer hotel here ... declared that one very clear day he picked out a ship coming into Portland Harbor and could distinctly see that its cargo was West Indian rum. A county historian avers that it was probably an optical delusion, the result of looking so often through a glass in common use in those days.”
—For the State of New Hampshire, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)