The Good Earth [antikvár]

Introduction The Good Earth: Demystifying the East -^^- In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless stoiy about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth. Hardworking and wildly ambitious, Wang Limg and his wife, O-lan, pull themselves out of poverty, bring children into the world, survive famines and floods, and toil relendessly to build a fortune without ever losing faith in the restorative power of the land. But their work is not the noveFs only stoiy. Marriages and conniving family members, natural disasters and wars, births and adolescent rebellions, concubines and opium addiction make The Good Earth a rich and dramatic tapestry of life in early-twentieth-century China. At the time The Good Earth appeared in the United States, Chinese citizens had been barred from immigrating there for four decades, and Americans' understanding of the largest nation of the world was extremely distorted. Most Americans thought of China as a mystical