Die Frauen des Hauses Wu

A classic of entertainment literature by Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. "The Women of the House of Wu" is a grand love story in which Pearl S. Buck shapes her intimate knowledge of Chinese culture. Madame Wu is the wife of a wealthy merchant. As the head of an extended family, she subtly guides the fates of her sons and daughters-in-law. But then she does something unprecedented: on the night after her fortieth birthday, she decides to end her seemingly harmonious marriage and introduces her husband to a concubine. It is her encounter with an Italian priest that opens up a completely new world for her. The love for this foreign man, which fulfills her even beyond his death, transforms her soul. Through him and with him, she comes to the ultimate insights about marriage and the nature of love.