China Sky

<p><strong>China Sky</strong> first published in 1941 is a romance by Pearl S. Buck set in war-time China. Dr. Gray Thompson an American missionary doctor works alongside Dr. Sara Durand in a hospital he has built in a small Chinese village as Japanese forces approach. When Gray returns from a visit to America a trip he shocks Sara (who is in love with him) by introducing his new socialite wife Louise. In the midst of bombing attacks on the village Dr. Thompson continues to help the local residents and especially the insurgent leader Chen-Ta. To protect the hospital a high-ranking Japanese prisoner gets a message to the Japanese commander which stops the bombing but eventually Japanese paratroopers land in the village and fierce fighting ensues. <em>China Sky </em>was also the subject of a 1945 movie of the same name. </p><p>Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938 and was the author of numerous novels short-stories and works of non-fiction.</p>