Letter From Peking; by Pearl S. Buck.

Back home in US the wife gets a letter from her half Chinese husband - he loves her, but has to live in his other homeland, and to prove his loyalty he has to take a Chinese wife. These are times of turmoil.

The story of three generations of people of US involved with land and people of China a world away, on various levels, with love and friendship, ancestry and difficulty of facing prejudices, marrying with or without love, marriages for reasons other than love, and coming to terms with life's complexities.

It needs someone with stature of awareness and consciousness of Pearl Buck to write so much so succinctly and yet convey so much touching heart while widening mind of a reader.