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

Half-starved, the family joins thousands of peasants to beg on the city streets.

It seems that all is lost, until O-lan''s desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the family''s money breeds only mistrust, deception - and heartbreak for the woman who had saved them.



The Good Earthis a riveting family saga and story of female sacrifice - a classic of twentieth-century literature.


Format Häftad Omfång 368 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Simon & Schuster Ltd Utgivningsdatum 2016-01-14 ISBN 9781471151873