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Sons
The House of Earth Trilogy (Book 2)
- Author
- Pearl S. Buck
- Narrator
- Adam Verner
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 14 February 2017
- Run Time
- 13 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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.
Critics Review
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“[With Sons] Buck has enriched her wide canvas.”
New York Times
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“[Buck] did for the working people of twentieth-century China something of what Dickens had done for London’s nineteenth-century poor.”
Hilary Spurling, author of Pearl Buck in China
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Details
- Author
- Pearl S. Buck
- Narrator
- Adam Verner
- Duration
- 13 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 February 2017
- ISBN
- 9781504668309
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Classic fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Generational sagas
Synopsis
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 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.
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