American Nobel prize winner Pearl S Buck's newly discovered manuscript will be published later this year, 40 years after her death.

According to a report by the Guardian, publishing house Open Road Media has announced they will be publishing American Nobel prize winner Pearl S Buck's new discovered manuscript named "The Eternal Wonder" this October, 40 years after the death of the author. The publishing house revealed that the novel was completely just a few days before Buck passed away. The manuscript was discovered in storage this January.

"The Eternal Wonder is as brilliant and inspiring as Pearl Buck's most famous works, and we look forward to readers across the world getting to enjoy this long-lost masterpiece this fall along with Buck's other wonderful books," said Buck's son Edgar Walsh, Open Road's Jane Friedman and agent Michael Carlisle of InkWell in a joint statement.

Buck moved back to the United States in 1934 after growing up with missionary parents in China.

"Pearl Buck strongly shaped Western and specifically American perceptions of China to an extent that had not been seen in the past," Buck's biographer Peter Conn told the New York Times. "She actually can make claim to a unique kind of cultural achievement, which is to prepare Americans for the increasingly tangled relationship ... with China for the next 70 or 80 years."

The book is about "an extraordinarily gifted young man whose search for meaning and purpose leads him to New York, England, Paris, on a mission patrolling the DMZ in Korea that will change his life forever - and, ultimately, to love," revealed the publishing house.