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Book Club: The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
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Tue Jul 18 |
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Public details: The Pulitzer Prize–winning 1931 classic novel of China by the Nobel Prize winner Pearl S. Buck. 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 have 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? |
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