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China Sky is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1941. The story centers around love, honor, and wartime treachery in an American hospital in the fictional town of Chen-li, China, during the Japanese invasion. Air-raid warnings frequently force the town's residents, hospital staff and patients to evacuate to caves in the cliffs near Chen-li. Dr Gray Thomison grew up the only son of a wealthy American family and chose to build a hospital in Chen-li. He is the resident doctor in charge.
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- Bookseller
- San Francisco Book Company (FR)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67834
- Title
- China Sky
- Author
- Buck, Pearl S
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Cloth/dust jacket and Mylar wrapped Octavo
- Publisher
- Blakiston
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1945
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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- Jacket
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- Octavo
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- Cloth
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