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"Sons" by Pearl S. Buck
Product Description(Amazon.com)
Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also promising emancipation to China's oppressed millions who are groping for a way to survive in a modern age.
# Paperback: 313 pages
# Publisher: Moyer Bell (November 1992)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1559210397
# ISBN-13: 978-1559210393
MY THOUGHTS: This is the second of 3 books written by Pearl S. Buck in a trilogy. The last book is A House Divided. These 3 books follow one Chinese family through the generations. This book Sons is following the sons of Wang Lung. Wang the Eldest, Wang the Second and Wang the Third. Wang the Eldest is very lazy and waits for everyone to bring his money to him. He lives a corpulent life style. Wang the Second is very greedy, but miserly. He works and saves to become richer, but lives like a peasant. Wang the Third has left his family and went out on his own. He is with the military trying to make a name and place separate from his family. This book is full of history and his set during the revolution of China's history.
MY RATING: 5
2 wonderful people stopped by:
Sons sounds like a wonderful book, by a wonderful author. Thanks for a great review!
I had no idea The Good Earth was the first in a triology! Read it in high school, read it again last year for book club, the movie is waiting on my TiVo.
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