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At one time, it was a very highly acclaimed and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, one year after its publication. Six years later, Buck, who much of his life in China (she was the daughter of American missionaries was) spent, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938 for her role in the life of the farmer and his biographies excellent. It is clear, The Good Earth still has appeal because most of the other group book the reviews were very favorable, but I could not bring myself to like it. I never really committed to the characters or the story, and felt like it was stable and stiff, almost as if it. Someone for whom English is a second language, or as if it were written a bad translation Buck writing lacks sense, and he never judges or makes the authorial comments: he tells just how it is, but it seemed to me, that means that there is a lack of empathy, and you will never get into the characters, or to find out what motivates them. The book tells the story of a poor farmer Wang Lung, probably during the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th at the age of his father somewhere in northern China, lives - not the place or the time is never clear. It opens on to her marriage, and follow him for the next 50 years or so, as he raises his family acquires more land, install the concubine of his house, and buy a big house where his wife once worked. He argues with a helpless family, famine and floods. The hardships of life in rural China and the shocking contrast between rich and poor, is very clear. At some point, Wang Lung and his family to survive hunger, to the southern city to go 100 miles away, where they scratch a living by pulling a rickshaw
while his wife and son in their painstakingly meager living by begging. Then the uproar he gets lucky and wins in silver and gold, which he used to create a better life when he returns home. Despite the fact that Wang Lung species have been described, and it is certainly a hard-working, I do not like him (or any of the other characters). I think the thing that was alienated me most is his lack of love, tenderness and understanding for his wife, O-lan, she has no regard for them at all, and it seems to read it as a person. However, it is difficult to apply their own standards, because he is so much a product of the time, place and culture, very different from those we know. What me most was facing a hard life of women with violence and how little they are valued (such as the daughters of slaves known). O-lan, plain, big feet and is spoken slowly, is a hard life, and wait a little for them. But the prospect of the Lotus, a prostitute, the Wang Lung fall in love not exceed. She uses her looks to get gifts for men and lead the idle life, but without the protection of Wang Lung, he would have been allowed to fade away with nothing but his appearance and image. Through it all, the good and bad times, Wang Lung hold his ground
It is the thing that she loves everyone else - except, perhaps, his father, his old friend Ching and his older daughter, "Poor fool who does not speak and sit in the sun, but he can by his cloth his three sons, in new and different ways trained not. feel the country and ashamed in contact with the rural life. His success has ensured they move away from their roots, and he can not control the decisions that they make, even if it is true it that way. The new questions about the nature of satisfaction, for some reason reminds me of a story teller and an old man who lived in vinegar jar and fulfills wishes, and asked more and more frequently in our homes and way of life, but he was never with what he pleased. By the end of Wang Lung has lost the desire - for women, wealth or country - and would be happy to return his first piece of land to a simpler life in his old home. Pear S Buck, shown in Figure 132, the year he received the Pulitzer Prize Good Earth His return is part of a recurring theme in the cycle of life. It is clear that whatever is in season, and that the wheel of fortune turns changed the life and the people at the mercy of the gods thrown or raised below. What goes around comes around: at the beginning of the novel, Wang Lung, scared, shy and insecure, walks in the big house to collect the bride he has ever seen, but towards the end of the circle, and it is he, in the big house sits and waits for the poor farmer to collect a slave girl and get married. As you can see, there are a lot to think in this book, it offers an insight into the Chinese culture and way of life of about 100 years ago, however, and there are two sequels, but I do not think I bother with them. I would much rather by Amy Tan (I always like to) read something and Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Lisa See or Empress Orchid by Anchee Min.