Pearl S.Buck ‘s “The Old Demon” to review

Pearl Buck was an American writer and novelist. As the daughter of missionaries, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, China. Her novel The Good Earth was the best-selling fiction book in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces". She was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.

 

After returning to the United States in 1935, she continued writing prolifically, became a prominent advocate of the rights of women and minority groups, and wrote widely on Chinese and Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption.

 

 

The Old Demon is a short story by Pearl S. Buck set during the Second Sino-Japanese War that will analyze in the next episode of Radio program “The Labyrinth of Stories”.

 

The story has been published by Creative Co. in 1981  , illustrated by Sandra Higashii . The story is about Mrs.Wang, who was the eldest woman in her village, and how she sacrificed herself in order to save her family and village from the Japanese who were near her village. She describes the river as the old demon because she felt that whenever the river was unchecked,

 

Behnaz Bostandoust will read the short  story of " the old demon" and  she will analyze this story with Kayhan Bahmani . The biography is narrated by Reza Omrani and the producer of this program is Jaleh Mohammad Ali.