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On her behalf 40th birthday, Madame Wu provides out a choice she's been arranging a very long time: she tells her husband that after 24 years their physical life jointly is currently over and she wishes him to have a second wife. THE HOME of Wu, one of the oldest & most revered in China, is thrown into an uproar by her decision, but Madame Wu will never be dissuaded and arranges for a young country woman to come take her place in bed. Elegant and detached, Madame Wu orchestrates this change as she manages everything in the expanded household of more than sixty relatives and servants. Together in her own quarters, she relishes her independence and reads books she's never been allowed to touch. When her boy begins British lessons, she listens, and it is soon learning from the "foreigner," a free-thinking priest called Brother Andre, who'll change her life. Pavilion of Women is a thought-provoking mixture of Old China, unorthodox Christianity, and liberation, written by Pearl S. Buck, a Nobel Award winner blessed and raised in China. Few testimonies increase so many questions about the type and roles of men and women, about self-discipline and joy. At the guts is the amazing Madame Wu - brilliant, beautiful, packed with contradictions and authority.
