A House Divided - Hardcover

Pearl S. Buck

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9997507002 ISBN 13: 9789997507006

Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son, 1935

Synopsis

Wang Yuan and his father Wang the Tiger chose different sides in war

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About the Author

Pearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia and taken to China as an infant before the turn of the century. Buck grew up speaking Chinese as well as English. She is the most widely translated American author to this day. She has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature. She died in 1973.

From AudioFile

The House of Earth trilogy, which starts with THE GOOD EARTH, is Buck's powerful portrayal of early twentieth-century China. This book ends the trilogy with the story of Wang Yuan, the grandson of the couple in the first book. The book stands on its own but would certainly be more meaningful after hearing the first two books. Yuan represents a young man of privilege as the Chinese culture is transforming due to the Western influences and political events of the 1930s. Adam Verner uses a clipped accent for the speech of the Chinese characters; for the character of Yuan he makes that accent a bit stronger. Further, he delivers Yuan's convictions as if they were his own. As a narrator, Verner sounds fully engaged in the story's events and the questions it poses. J.E.M. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

Edition details

• Publisher: P. F. Collier & Son
• Publication date: 1935
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9997507002
• ISBN 13: 9789997507006
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 353