The Good Earth

Resumen del libro

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes. Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets. It seems that all is lost, until O-lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family's money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them. The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.

Biografía del autor

Hija de misioneros, Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) vivió en China prácticamente hasta los cuarenta años. Distinguida con el Nobel de Literatura en 1938 y autora de obras como "Viento del este, viento del oeste" o "La semilla del dragón", es probablemente su novela "La buena tierra", que obtuvo el Premio Pulitzer en 1932, la que con más constancia ha gozado del favor del público desde que se publicara por primera vez en 1931.