Bibliograph

Sons, Pearl S. Buck

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Sons, Pearl S. Buck

Language

eng

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fiction

Main title

Sons

Responsibility statement

Pearl S. Buck

Series statement

Second volume in the Good earth trilogyOriental novels of Pearl S. Buck, 6th

Summary

The second installment in Pearl S. Buck's acclaimed Good Earth trilogy: the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin. Sons begins where The Good Earth ended: Revolution is sweeping through China. Wang Lung is on his deathbed in the house of his fathers, and his three sons stand ready to inherit his hard-won estate. One son has taken the family's wealth for granted and become a landlord; another is a thriving merchant and moneylender; and the youngest, an ambitious general, is destined to be a leader in the country. Through all his life's changes, Wang did not anticipate that each son would hunger to sell his beloved land for maximum profit. At once a tribute to early Chinese fiction, a saga of family dissension, and a depiction of the clashes between old and new, Sons is a vivid and compelling masterwork of fiction

Target audience

adult

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