Published in 1931, “The Good Earth” spent two years at the top of the best-seller list and won its author a Pulitzer Prize. (The 9-year-old she left in America had made a sport of flinging porridge and dirt at the keys.) She felt her story already formed, at the tips of her fingers, and so it must have been: Five months later, a completed manuscript sailed to America.
While her younger daughter was at nursery school, she chained herself every morning - another madwoman in the attic - to a battered typewriter. The parting was excruciating she was, she recalled, “nearly destroyed by grief and fear.” The house felt empty on her return to Nanjing, but she knew precisely what to do: “This I decided was the time to begin really to write.” She did so with borrowed money, as she could not afford the fees.
A readers’ favorite for generations, this powerful and beautifully written fable resonates with universal themes of hope and family unity.In 1929, an American woman traveled from her home in China to settle her severely impaired daughter in a New Jersey institution. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the William Dean Howells Award, The Good Earth was an Oprah’s Book Club choice in 2004. Will Wang’s family cherish the estate after he’s gone? And can his material success, the bedrock of his life, guarantee anything about his soul? Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order.
But success brings with it a new set of problems. With luck and hard work, the couple’s fortunes improve over the years: They are blessed with 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.
The Good Earth is Buck’s classic story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. Buck’s timeless masterpiece, the Pulitzer Prize–winning story of a farmer’s journey through China in the 1920s
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