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Bezig met laden... House of earth: The good earth; Sons; A house divided (editie 1935)door Pearl S. Buck
Informatie over het werkHet huis van aarde : trilogie - De goede aarde ; De zonen van Wang Lung ; Het verdeelde huis door Pearl S. BUCK
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Onderdeel van de reeks(en)De goede aarde Trilogie (1-3) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Fischer Taschenbuch (11663) BevatThe Good Earth, Part 1 door Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (indirect) The Good Earth, Part 2 door Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (indirect)
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The Good Earth is Buckâ??s classic, Pulitzer Prizeâ??winning story of Wang Lung, a Chinese peasant farmer, and his wife, O-lan, a former slave. With luck and hard work, the coupleâ??s fortunes improve over the years: They have sons and save steadily until one day they can afford to buy property in the House of Wangâ??the very house in which O-lan used to work. But success brings with it a new set of problems. Wang soon finds himself the target of jealousy, and as good harvests come and go, so does the social order. Will Wangâ??s family cherish the estate after heâ??s gone? The familyâ??s story continues in Sons and A House Divided, when the Revolution sweeping through China further unsettles Wang Lungâ??s family in this rich and unforgettable portrait of a family and a country in the throes of wid Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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In the second volume, we follow his three sons in lives distanced from the land. Wang the landlord and Wang the merchant follow well worn paths into the mercantile classes but most of the focus is on Wang the Tiger, whose career path as a Lord of War is less conventional. Without the overreaching tie of the relationship to the land, it has a hollow feeling, making it less self-contained, more waiting for the completion one expects from the final volume. 27 August 2017.
The final volume mainly follows Yuan, son of Wang the Tiger, as he struggles to find a way through conflicting family loyalties and the changes sweeping China. The narrative style is less suited to this type of story and indeed, it gradually moves over to a more conventional style. Yuan seems to have the same bond with the land as his grandfather but can't reconcile it to his situation. In the end, he realises that he will lose all the land his grandfather acquired and he feels it as a sense of liberation. This final volume is more complex and nuanced than the previous two and stands up well in itself.
Overall, the trilogy is somewhat uneven in style and scope, evolving as it progresses rather than conceived as a whole, but nevertheless interesting. It is comparable to Melvyn Bragg's Cumbrian trilogy but, for me, it doesn't feel so well rooted in time and place, perhaps reflecting that Buck, for all her exposure to China, remains an outsider. 1 November 2017. ( )