She has no name in the book, only her place: the mother, feeding grass into the stove of a thatched farmhouse while her husband’s half-blind old mother huddles by the fire. Buck follows this woman through harvests, festivals, hunger and the raising of her children in a village of rural China, and through the hard choices left to her when her husband goes away.
A spare, intimate companion to The Good Earth from the Nobel laureate who knew rural China at first hand. Download the free EPUB.