A Leaf in the Storm by Lin Yutang 1941 Signed First Edition First Printing

"War does strange things to people," the author says repeatedly. Thus the overtone of the book, heard above the clangor of external events, is what is happening inside the person who lives amid war, and particularly in the young and passionate Tanni, in whose life we see a conflict between sacred and profane love. The solution to her problem, through the teachings of Buddhism, lends unique and deep spiritual values to the story. 

Behind and above the story is drawn in large and awe-inspiring outlines the authentic picture of a peace-loving and patiently angry nation, "bursting forth like a flood that snaps steel and concrete with the terrific gathered momentum of atomic energy in the weak substance called water." 

Title: A Leaf in the Storm

Author: Lin Yutang 

Publisher: John Day Company New York 

Publication Date: 1941  

Printer: H, Wolff New York 

Printing: First printing 

Edition: First edition 

Binding: Hardcover 

Language: English 

Condition: Please see the images 

Pages: 368

Measures approximately: 8 3/4 x 6 x 1 1/2 inches (22 x 15 x 4 cm.)