
It is about the atrocities committed by the Japanese and the unbreakable Chinese spirit. It is about the mass migration of an entire country. This novel is not about stories of these three fictional characters, but about the story of the Chinese people as a whole during this time period. This is simply used as a catalyst to start the novel moving. But when the Japanese realize the girl they have been looking for, Malin, is hiding there she is forced to follow the army inland with the help of Lao Peng, the old, wise, Bhuddist friend of Poya. It opens in an occupied Peiking in 1937 as Yao Poya, a rich, intelligent, middle aged married man falls in love with Malin, a beautiful girl with a shadowy past. This novel follows three intertwining lives through the inland retreat of the Chinese during the Second World War. The novel describes the years of the Second Sino-Japanese War before the American entrance in 1941. It opens in an occupied Peiking in 1937 as Yao Poya, a rich, intelligent, middle aged married man falls in love with Malin, a beautiful gir BASIC PLOT (No spoilers)Ī Leaf in the Storm, a Novel of War-Swept China is a 1941 novel by Lin Yutang, in effect a sequel to his Moment in Peking.


Por ello, por encima de los sucesos exteriores, el tema real del libro es lo que ocurre dentro de las personas que viven el tumulto angustiante de la guerra.moreīASIC PLOT (No spoilers) A Leaf in the Storm, a Novel of War-Swept China is a 1941 novel by Lin Yutang, in effect a sequel to his Moment in Peking. La guerra produce cosas raras en la gente, reflexiona el autor. En medio de las escenas de combate y del exodo de millones de seres, tres entranables personajes viven un drama de intensa emocion: Poya, joven y rico, analiza la guerra criticamente Lao Peng, un budista austero, se interesa solo por los seres humanos, y Malin, bella y misteriosa, busca la paz de un hogar. En medio de las escenas de combate y del exodo de millones de seres, tres entranables personajes viven un drama de intensa emocion: Poya, joven y rico, analiza la guerra criticamente Lao Peng, un budista austero, se interesa solo por los seres humanos, y Malin, bella y mis En su novela Una hoja en la tormenta Lin Yutang nos ofrece un cuadro vivo de la China contemporanea.

En su novela Una hoja en la tormenta Lin Yutang nos ofrece un cuadro vivo de la China contemporanea.
