New York Times–bestselling novel by the author of The Good Earth: An affecting portrait of interracial love in postwar Japan.
Pearl S. Buck’s The Hidden Flower centers on the relationship between a Japanese student and an American soldier stationed in postwar Japan. The Japanese student’s father worked in the United States as a doctor, but had to flee to Kyoto to avoid imprisonment in an internment camp. The American soldier has inherited his family’s estate in Virginia, where interracial marriage is forbidden. Against such forces, and without the help of their families, how can the love between the young pair—and the future of their child—flourish? The Hidden Flower is an emotionally astute and moving exploration of a taboo love across cultures.
About the Author
Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth
(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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