The Three Daughters Of Madame Liang

by Pearl S. Buck

Book Overview

After her husband takes a concubine, Madame Liang sets out on her own, starting an upscale restaurant and sending her daughters to America to be educated. At the restaurant, the leaders of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0600771261
• ISBN13: 9780600771265
• Release Date: January 1969
• Publisher: Joh Day
• Length: 315 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

mesmerizing

Since I read the Good Earth, I fell in love with the authors' style and the wonderful way of delivering her message. This book is a piece of art.

Mother's World-Daughers World

I really enjoyed this book as Ms. Buck was able to take the reader inside a family caught in a changing world during the Chinese revolution and show how the characters each acted and reacted according to the information they had and what they believed or wanted to believe about that information. Madam Liang, who is coming to terms with disillusionment about the revolution and her past part in it, and her daughters, who had been sent to America for education and protection and their return to China with patriotic and idealistic expectations, are classic generational viewpoint studies. The shocking ending to the story was unexpected and expected all at once. The basic story is still relevant today.

A Moving, Deeply Personal Account of the Cultural Revolution

I have read more than a dozen novels by the extraordinary Pearl S. Buck, and this is one of my all time favorites. Buck's lucid writing, and deep understanding of complex cultural issues makes this a gem. Set against the back-drop of the Chinese cultural Revolution, THE THREE DAUGHTERS OF MADAME LIANG charts the deeply personal journey and loss of one Chinese family. There is a sophistication to Buck's writing that is not always immediately apparent, but once you become used to her voice, the deceptively simple prose gives way to deeply moving insights. This is a glowing, powerful novel about a family and a country at a crossroads. Don't miss it!

classical PS Buck writing....a must have!

This is one of the most amazingly bittersweet novels I have ever read. I will never forget it, and think about it frequently in seemingly unrelated places of my life. If you can come across this book, I definitely suggest it!

This is a great book about the changes of China in the 50's.

This is a wonderful book about the changes during the Revolution. There is Madame Liang, a wealthy gourmet restaurant owner, and her daughters and their lovers. It is extremely interesting in the high points of the book, as well as the extremely sad parts. I loved it and compare it to the greatness of her other novel, The Good Earth