The Good Earth Trilogy
The Good Earth, Sons, A House Divided
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Publisher Description
Set in China during the early twentieth century, Pearl S. Buck’s timeless trilogy is the powerful story of a family—and a nation—in transition.
The Good Earth is Buck’s classic, Pulitzer Prize–winning story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with sons, and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wang—the very house in which O-lan used to work. But success brings with it a new set of problems. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. Will Wang’s family cherish the estate after he’s gone?
The family’s story continues in Sons and A House Divided, when the Revolution sweeping through China further unsettles Wang Lung’s family in this rich and unforgettable portrait of a family and a country in the throes of widespread national change.
Customer Reviews
One of my all time favorite authors
I was introduced to Pearl Buck’s novel, The Good Earth, by my mother when I was a young teenager. She is still one of my all time favorite authors with stories that are substantive. Her narrative has the flavor of the nation that she is describing. Simple and beautiful. Her characters fascinate and frustrate me at the same time as I experience their choices, their griefs, their joys and their misunderstandings. She makes me want to jump in to the story and cheer on the players. And when they are heading for grief and pain, she makes me want to step in and help them see where their choices are taking them. She always transports me right into the story. There is an almost magical quality to her writing that illuminates a culture that I knew little to nothing about before reading her stories.