Pearl S. Buck

This Pulitzer Prize–winning classic tells the poignant tale of a Chinese farmer and his family in old agrarian China. The humble Wang Lung glories in the soil he works, nurturing the land as it nurtures him and his family. Nearby, the nobles of the House of Hwang consider themselves above the...

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...

The story of Tzu Hsi is the story of the last Empress in China. In this audio book, Pearl S. Buck recreates the life of one of the most intriguing rules during a time of intense turbulence. Tzu Hsi was born into one of the lowly ranks of the Imperial dynasty. According to custom, she moved to...

The conclusion to Buck’s celebrated Good Earth trilogy: the story of a man’s return to a homeland embroiled in revolution On the eve of a popular rebellion, the Chinese government starts to crack down in cities across the country. Fleeing the turmoil, Wang Yuan, the son of a famous general...

Rann falls for the beautiful and equally brilliant Stephanie Kung, who lives in Paris with her Chinese father and has not seen her American mother since she abandoned the family....

On her fortieth birthday, Madame Wu carries out a decision she has been planning for a long time: she tells her husband that after twenty-four years their physical life together is now over and she wishes him to take a second wife. The House of Wu, one of the oldest and most revered in China, is...

Con La buena tierra la escritora estadounidense Pearl Buck gano el Premio Nobel de 1938....

A graceful and intimate portrait of a family caught between centuries-old tradition and the rising tide of modernity Told through the eyes of Kwei-lan, a young Chinese woman raised in strict Confucian customs, East Wind: West Wind follows her arranged marriage to a Western-educated doctor whose...

When O-lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wang Lung, she toils unceasingly through pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land - until the famine comes.

Die Nobelpreisträgerin Pearl S. Buck erzählt vom unglaublichen Leben der letzten chinesischen Kaiserin Tsu Hsi: Als Mädchen aus einfachen...

Die ewige Sehnsucht nach dem Glück: Der berühmteste Roman der Literaturnobelpreisträgerin Pearl S. Buck gelesen von Ulrich Noethen...