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Publisher's Summary
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.
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- Jodie
- Middletown, NY, United States
- 05-02-18
it was very good!
I liked the book a lot. I did not like it as much as The Good Earth, so I gave it 4 stars. It is very similar in style and performance and at times Sons seems a bit slow, but I didn't find myself getting bored. I didn't find myself getting overly invested either though. It was a good, solid read.
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- lerone
- ST-CATHARINES, ontario, Canada
- 12-04-17
Family
An excellent continuation to the first book. The narrator is excellent and allow you to drawn to the characters. Learnt a lot of China's past.Highly recommended.
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- Barry Frieder, MD
- Denver, CO
- 01-19-18
stunning and touching
as usual Pearl buck does not disappoint a wonderful study of Human nature. enjoy! beautiful.
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- Margaret
- 11-24-17
A great story of the will of man to survive
The calm voice tells the story with this in ride compassion for the members of the party surviving what was unsurviable
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- Didi Martin
- 01-21-19
Slow moving
I enjoyed the book, but not as much as “the Good Earth”. Nice to follow the lives of this family, but it’s a plodding undertaking. The unique rhythm of the first book looses its charm as you try to stay interested in an undeveloped plot.
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-31-18
Poor recording
Story and performance are fine but music starts playing randomly like it was bootlegged or something. If I hadn’t paid for it I would have quit listening.
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- Tiffany Michelle Irvine
- 07-09-17
well that's one way to continue the story
not exactly what I was expecting but I will read the next in the series anyway and see what happens
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