Sons
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Sons
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Narrated by:
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Adam Verner
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Pearl S. Buck
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.
©1932 Pearl S. Buck. © renewed 1984 by Janice C. Walsh, Richard S. Walsh, John S. Walsh, Mrs. Henrietta C. Walsh, Mrs. Chico C. Singer, Edgar S. Walsh, Mrs. Jean C. Lippincott, and Carol Buck (P)2010 Oasis AudioContinue the series
Critics' reviews
“[With Sons] Buck has enriched her wide canvas.”
(New York Times)“[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)