The timeless Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece following a humble
farmer's journey through 1920s China returns with this beautifully
repackaged edition that celebrates its nearly ninety years as an
American classic. Travel to 1920s China, a time when the last emperor
still ruled and the sweeping changes of the twentieth century were
distant rumblings, with this timeless, evocative classic tale of the
honest farmer Wang Lung and his family as they struggle to survive in
the midst of vast political and social upheavals. Nobel Prize and
Pulitzer Prize winner Pearl S. Buck traces the whole cycle of life: its
terrors, its passions, its ambitions, and rewards. "A comment upon the
meaning and tragedy of life as it is lived in any age in any quarter of
the globe" (The New York Times), this brilliant novel--beloved by
millions--is a universal tale of an ordinary family caught in the tide
of history.