TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buck, Pearl S
TI  - The good earth
SN  - 9781471151873
U1  - 813.52 
PY  - 1931///
CY  - London
PB  - Simon & Schuster
KW  - China
KW  - married women
KW  - Farmers' spouses
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Farm life
KW  - Family farms
KW  - domestic fiction
N2  - When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes.

Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them.

The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature
ER  -