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 ruinSons 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 … has taken the family’s wealth for granted and become a landlord; another is a thriving merchant and moneylender; 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. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author’s estate.
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Not crazy about this book. Too much about the warrior son. Very sad depiction of life in China
Pearl Buck never disappoints. This is actually book two in a trilogy and all three are wonderful. I don’t normally like books set in foreign countries but she makes the people real. A really great read.
Sons is a book that has many layers. I enjoy reading books that provide history and perspective on other countries and cultures. Many of the lessons presented to the characters are transferable to today.
Prejudice and difficult family expectations have always been with us, humanity. In all cultures, every country.
The chinese culture is very interesting to me. Each provence is so different making it unpredictable
First a warning…. if you buy this book via Kindle, note that a large part of the third book, A House Divided, is included with this digital copy. It was very nice of them; you still have to buy the 3th book of this trilogy in order to finish reading. So, when you are reading Sons on your Kindle and follow the ‘time left in book’ or ‘percentage …
This is the second book of the trilogy that begins with the Good Earth, then Sons the final is A House Divided. Do yourself a favor and read this Nobel Prize winning author. Give it time to get you hooked. She is a fantastic storyteller.