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[Please note that my rating refers only to this edition.]
by
Pearl S. Buck
144 pages
Expected publication:
July 4th 2017
by Simon Schuster
ISBN:1501132768
(ISBN13: 9781501132766)
Edition Language:English
BLURB: Pearl Buck’s 1931 Pulitzer
Prize–winning classic about the rise and fall of Chinese villagers
before World War I comes to life in this graphic novel by Nick Bertozzi.
In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century.
Shelves book-to-graphic-novel, classics, graphic-novel, literary-fiction, netgalley, situ-1920s
In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century.
Shelves book-to-graphic-novel, classics, graphic-novel, literary-fiction, netgalley, situ-1920s
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
[Please note that my rating refers only to this edition.]
Wang Lung is a poor peasant in China between wars, the story begins with his marriage to a poor slave of a rich house - O-Lan -, and continues through three generations in his fight against poverty, hunger, droughts and plagues , meanwhile a revolution is mentioned in the background. O-Lan and Wang Lung work very hard on their lands, and their efforts bear fruit although he never values his wife much in spite of being essentially a fairly good and honest man, which is seen especially at the end.
I had read this novel many years ago, it was among the books in my house and I remembered it with some nostalgia, so I required this book out of curiosity. I do not know where this fashion came from introducing great classics as graphic novels, but in this case the format frankly does not do justice to this tremendous classic.
