The Good Earth is a novel published in 1931 and written by Pearl S. Buck. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer prize the very next year in 1932. The novel was also a very big factor in Buck winning the Nobel Peace prize in literature later in 1938.
The novel acts as a dramatization of family life in a pre World War I village in China. Mr. Wang Lung is the main character and the novel follows the rise and fall of his fortunes from his wedding day forward. For example Wang Lung’s field of crops is attacked by a swarm of locusts and they end up destroying a lot of his harvest.
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