The Good Earth, A Good Read

The Good Earth is an old classic; won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Good Earth tells a story of Wang Lung, who is doing as his father did, his fathers' father did, and so on. As a farmer he had land, one working ox, and the sweat of his body. Wang Lung married a slave/servant from the house of Hwang. O-lan was a good wife bore 3 sons and 2 slaves (servants otherwise known as girls). O-lan cooked, clean, worked in the field, and made life easier for her husband. The family goes from a farmer to the poor in a city south of their homes during the drought to being the tenant in the old house of Hwang. The choices of Wang Lung's sons changed the next generation and the next.

If you have an interest in Chinese culture-read this book. If you want to read about the life of a woman who lived with honor, O-lans story will please you-read this book. If you want to read a Pulitizer Prize book for fiction-read this book.

This book is recommended.