Good Earth Trilogy
Pearl S. Buck
Belletristik / Hauptwerk vor 1945
Beschreibung
The Pulitzer Prizewinning classic novel of China, together with its two sequelsby the Nobel Prize winner. The Good Earthis Buck's classic, Pulitzer Prizewinning 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 have sons and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wangthe 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.
