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Sons

Written by: Pearl S. Buck
Narrated by: Adam Verner
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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 Audio Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction China

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What the critics say

“[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)

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I enjoyed this book. You are spirited away to a different time and place. The characters are easy to follow (especially when you have to put your book down). I can’t wait to hear the next book to see what happens in their lives. The performance was great as well. I feel that I gained some knowledge about Chinese culture especially the rural area.

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