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Open Road Media
November 2013
On Sale: October 22, 2013
364 pages
ISBN: 1480439703
EAN: 9781480439702
Kindle: B00CX4WMWK
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Fiction Family Life
A recently discovered novel written by Pearl S. Buck at the
end of her life in 1973, The Eternal Wonder 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 demilitarized zone in Korea that will change
his life forever—and, ultimately, to love.
Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie
Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has not
seen her American mother since she 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 struggles to reconcile the Chinese part of herself
with her American and French selves. 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.
A moving and mesmerizing fictional exploration of the themes
that meant so much to Pearl S. Buck in her life, this final
work is perhaps her most personal and passionate, and will
no doubt appeal to the millions of readers who have
treasured her novels for generations.
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