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The Good Earth
Author: Pearl S. Buck

Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9781416511359
Pages: 357
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The Good Earth is a classic novel which is sought after even today . It had bagged the Pulitzer award in 1932 and has also been adapted into a movie.

O-Lan is a homely servant girl in the village's greatest house. When she is taken as a wife by Wang Lung, a simple Chinese farmer, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward at first is meagre, but there is hope in their work, sustenance in the land. Until the famine comes.