by Pearl S. Buck · RBA Coleccionables · tapa dura · ISBN 9788447360161
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«La buena tierra» is the novel by Pearl S. Buck, published by RBA Coleccionables in hardback (364 pages, in Spanish).
The novel follows Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant who lives off the land and seeks the well-being of his family. After a flood and famine, he must emigrate to the city, where he faces poverty and social unrest. Buck portrays the bond with the land, the clash between rural and urban life, and the cycles of fortune and loss.
First instalment of the House of Earth series. Edition from the Grandes Escritoras collection, with a prologue by Maruja Torres and translation by Elisabeth Mulder.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize (1932), recommended for readers of classic and historical fiction and for book clubs.
Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and humanitarian. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932, which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
