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Dans la Chine d'autrefois, le seul rôle dévolu aux femmes de riches était celui d'épouse et de mère. Ce rôle, la fine et intelligente Ailien Wu ne le supporte plus. Pour y échapper, elle se servira très adroitement des traditions, celles-là mêmes qui l'avaient liée pendant si longtemps. Pavillon de femmes est le roman de Pearl Buck qui fait le mieux comprendre ce qu'était l'ancestrale Chine des grandes familles, mais c'est aussi tout le drame des rapports de l'homme et de la femme à chaque âge de la vie.

Pearl S. Buck was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia.Pearl began to publish stories and essays in the 1920s, in magazines such as "The Nation, The Chinese Recorder, Asia, " and "The Atlantic Monthly." Her first novel, "East Wind, West Wind, " was published by the John Day Company in 1930. John Day's publisher, Richard Walsh, would eventually become Pearl's second husband, in 1935, after both received divorces.In 1931, John Day published Pearl's second novel, "The Good Earth." This became the bestselling book of both 1931 and 1932, won the Pulitzer Prize and the Howells Medal in 1935, and would be adapted as a major MGM film in 1937. In 1938, less than a decade after her first book had appeared, Pearl won the Nobel Prize in literature, the first American woman to do so. By the time of her death in 1973, Pearl had published more than seventy books: novels, collections of stories, biography and autobiography, poetry, drama, children's literature, and translations from the Chinese. She is buried at Green Hills Farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.