House of Earth Trilogy: The Good Earth (Audiobook)

from rkinch

This book is set in China and follows the life of an honest, hard working farmer, Wang Lung, and his wife, O-Lan, through famine and then prosperity. And, in a rich and heart breaking way shows the consequences of a path from poor and simple to rich and needy.

from ttjk

This book made me think so deeply...so many times I identified with the characters, whose lives are a world apart - it felt strangely moving and was simply profound. Sometimes I had to just close the book for a moment and just digest the thoughts and feelings. A must read.

from countrylife

I am apprehensive about trying to review such a great book, me, a novice. Yet so much did I like it, that I must say at least that. Through the LT Early Reviewer program, I read with pleasure the book Pearl of China by Anchee Min, a novel based on Pearl Buck's life in China. It awakened in me a n...

from jolerie

Wang Lung is an average Chinese farmer whose life and livelihood is tied to the land. His father and his father before him were all farmers and in their footsteps, Wang Lung attempts to build a life that will hopefully, god-willingly, one day provide a better life for his sons after him. O-lan is...

from Smiler69

"And what will we do with a pretty woman? We must have a woman who will tend the house and bear children as she works in the fields, and will a pretty woman do these things? She will be forever thinking about clothes to go with her face! No, not a pretty woman in our house. We are farmers. Moreov...