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گرانقدر نویسنده این کتاب ltپرل بکgt دوران کودکی خویش را در چین گذراند و در همانجا نیز درس خواند. . او عاشق سرزمین چین است و چین را قلب و روح خود میداند وی توانست فرهنگ و زندگی مردمان چین را به آمریکاییان و اروپائیان شناسانده و با داستانهایش فرهنگهای این مردمان را به یکدیگر پیوند بزند و در این راه جایزه نوبل را نیز کسب نمود

در این داستان ltوانگ لونگgt دهقانی است که خود را از زمین میداند و تمام زندگی خویش را فدای زمین کرده است و عشق دیوانه واری نسبت به زمین دارد او حاضر است آب را از فرزندانش دریغ کند ولی همان آب را به زمین بدهد
همسر او ltاولانgt نام دارد و از آنجایی که پیش از ازدواج با وانگ لونگ کنیز و برده خانواده بزرگ و زمیندار ltهوانگgt بوده است بنابراین به زندگی در هر شرایطی با وانگ لونگ شاد و خرسند است
هوانگ پیر رئیس خاندان بزرگ هوانگ زندگی و دارایی اش به خطر می افتد چراکه فساد و اعتیاد به تریاک این خاندان را به بیچارگی میکشاند
وانگ لونگ از این فرصت استفاده کرده و بخشی از زمین های خاندان هوانگ را خریداری میکند تا در راه پیشرفت گام بزرگی بردارد, . . ولی از شانس بد او جنگ و انقلاب و شورش و خشکسالی به یکباره خسارت های زیادی به او و خانواده اش وارد میکند . آنها پس از تحمل بدبختی های فراوان سرانجام در راه زمینداری و کشاورزی به خوشبختی دست پیدا میکنند
پس از گذشت زمان وانگ لونگ پیر میشود و زمینهایش را برای فرزندانش به ارث میگذارد ولی فرزندانش همچون پدرشان نسبت به زمین عشق و تعصب نداشته و تصمیم میگیرند تا زمینها را به فروش برسانند

شماره بعدی این رمان با عنوان "پسران خاندان وانگ" از آنجایی آغاز میشود که پسران این خانواده: وانگ بزرگ وانگ دوم و وانگ سوم یا همان ببر زمینها را بین یکدیگر تقسیم کرده و داستان به زندگی آنها و نواده های وانگ لونگ میپردازد

امیدوارم این ریویو در جهت شناخت این کتاب کافی و مفید بوده باشه
ltپیروز باشید و ایرانیgt شخص بلا أرض شخص بلا جذور
من الروايات التى شعرت بكم هائل من المشاعر و انا أقرأها بداية من التعاطف مع ذلك الفلاح البائس في صراعه مع حياة قاسية صراع مرير يبدو بلا نهاية مع ظروف أقوى من قدرته البسيطة على مقاومتها مرورا برحلته الشاقة للحفاظ على أرضه بعد أن أبتسم له القدر أخيرا لينتقل من الفاقة إلى عالم الثراء دون أن يفقد جذوره كفلاح يعرف قيمة الأرض و يقدسها
وصف الكاتبة كان أكثر من رائع و بخاصة في الفصول الأولى من الكتاب و الذى ذكرني برائعة عبدالرحمن الشرقاوي"الأرض" و يبدو أن معاناة البشر مع الارض واحدة مهما أختلف المكان النهاية أيضا رغم قسوتها كانت مميزة و معبرة البطل"وانغ" يتخلى عن زوجته"اولان" بعد أن طرق الثراء بابه متناسيا رحلتها الشاقة معه ليتخلى أولاده عن الأرض التى طالما أفني حياته في خدمتها ليطغى بريق المال على أى أنتماء للأرض في نهاية حزينة للعمل لكنها واقعية و مميزة
كتاب رائع و أستحقت عنه الكاتبة الفوز بجائزة نوبل عن جدارة This is a quietly told story of a Chinese farmer's life in the prerevolution days.
My feeling is that I liked it, but did not love it the rating would be,, rounded down.

It is a heartfelt account of life in the grassroots society of that era, with its own epochrelevant values, superstitions, class distinction and sexist attitude, not any dissimilar to that depicted in other Chinese literary works relating to that era Ba Jin's The Family, Autumn, Spring comes to mind.
What sets this novel apart from those Chinese works is perhaps the absence of bitterness in the narrator's voice, which comes in a calm, surreal tone.
Why could the author write in such a tone It is because she was a foreign visitor living in China only for a temporary period of time.
But as a story, it is superbly structured and told with credibly indigenous parlance, This is one hell of a classic, I kept thinking of sitelinkThe Grapes of Wrath during the first half of this read this and kept wondering at it.
Poverty, want, great toil, and then even more want filled these pages, The Good Earth came outyears before Steinbeck's masterpiece and yet my biggest wonder is why the Good Earth isn't better known, more well known, than Steinbeck.


Is it because it happens to Chinese characters rather than Okies from Oklahoma

Let's let that question pass on by for a moment because this book deserves to stand on its own worth.
The Earth is indeed the source of all wealth, . . but definitely not all sorrow, Some, sure, but most of the sorrow in these pages are created by those who do not understand or work the land.
This is an important point, As important as that in Candide, but more poignant, emotional, and effective in this novel,

High praise I think so, And well deserved.

I will like classics of all types for many different reasons, but some are much more impactful to me than others.


This one has that punch, Glorious, wonderful, sad, and so cruel, Life, with tragedy and small bits of joy here and there, . . but what an epic! This ought to be on the required reading lists except for one small point, . . it should be enjoyed and cherished without coercion, : پرل باک نویسندهی امریکایی این کتاب نیمی از زندگیاش را در چین گذرانده در کودکی همراه پدرش برای زندگی به چین رفته و همین باعث شده با خرافات آداب و رسوم و راه و رسم زندگی آنها بیشتر آشنا بشه و ظاهرا آثار زیادی در باب فرهنگ چین نوشته و داستانهایی در مورد این کشور داره. این کتاب هم برندهی جایزه نوبل شده. داستان کتاب از آنجایی شروع میشود که ونگ لانگ جوانی است که جای خالی مادرش را در زندگی بسیار حس میکند و همراه پدر پیرش در روستایی زندگی میکند. زندگی آنها با فقر و مشقت همراه هست ولی آنها به یک چیز امید دارند و آن هم زمینشان است. ونگ لانگ ازدواج میکند و طی سالیان ثروتمند میشود البته با سختکوشی و انرژی و وقتی که برای کار کردن و فرزندانش میگذاره و همینطور گذراندن روزهای سختتری که همون روزها باعث رسیدن به این ثروت شده ولی در وجود هر آدمی سایههای تاریکی وجود داره که وقتی بیدار میشن خودشم از درک آنها عاجزه کتاب خوب و روانی بود. Wang Lung on his wedding day gets up at dawn as usual, a poor Chinese farmer's son, who lives with his widowed old father, but is a very hardworking, strong, and ambitious young man, they occupy, a three room house made of dirt bricks, with a straw thatched roof.
After getting his ill father hot water, feeding the ox and doing the rest of the chores, Wang for the second time in the year, takes a bath secretly, with the precious water , ashamed to waste it, for such an unnecessary thing, hiding from his father this dishonorable deed.
Putting on his best clothes, going for a long walk later, to the Great House of Hwang, the guard at the gate mocks him, demands a bribe for entrance, everywhere laughs are heard, as the farmer travels through the large luxurious estate, with so many beautiful houses.
Amazingly looking objects, the bridegroom sees, never knowing of their existence, meeting OLan, his bride, for the first time, she is a tall plain looking woman, an unwanted slave, in the great house, beaten everyday, for no apparent reason, maybe to keep strict discipline there.
OLan was sold by her poor family at ten, and has worked as a slave ever since, she is about twenty years old.
. . Talking to the Old Mistress of the house, scared of her Eminence, is the awed farmer, all had been arranged by his father, bringing the bride back home, no real wedding ceremony, the old one is happy that he will be a grandfather, hopefully soon, grandsons, the only ones that count in China, in the lateth Century.
The small wedding feast, just five guests, including his lazy uncle, younger brother of his father, his son the cousin also indolent and three neighbors, Wang and his woman are both virgins on their wedding night.
OLan is also hard working, a fine cook, always taking care of the house, the old man , in the fields with her husband, giving birth alone, to many sons daughters also, and then the same day going back to help with the plowing.
Silently, without complaints, a perfect wife, if only she wasn't so bad looking Wang thinks, . . After good harvests, buying land from the faltering House of Hwang, a famine occurs, people are starving to death, the uncle , his wife and son,

are always asking for food and money, from Wang, when there is none, Wang has to decide stay and maybe die or go south , with his family, to a city where food is in abundance and abandon his land , that he loves, maybe forever, his modest dreams crushed, the desperate struggles, the backbreaking work, the scorching Sun beating down, the freezing mornings, cold to the bone, done for nothing Spellbinding story of a destitute peasant family, climbing literally from rags to riches and encountering difficulties as the new Twentieth Century arrives.
Can they survive the changing, callous world It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of his earth that he ploughed and turned and spent himself upon.
He took his life from the earth drop by drop by his sweat he wrung food from it and from the food, silver.


The Good Earth is known for telling the story of a poor, hardworking farmer, Wang Lung, who slowly and steadily gains more land and wealth for himself than he has ever imagined owning.
Forced to marry a slave from the House of Hwang, the wealthy and rich family of his province, Olan becomes his loyal but unappreciated wife, subservient to her husbands needs and desires.
Wangs connection to the earth is central to his life, He is a good man underneath and it is his love of the land that provides him with the moral and traditional values that he finds important love of his family, work ethic, religious piety.
However, Wang Lungs desire for wealth and riches contradicts his goodness and eventually causes him to lose his connection with the land.
Wealth alone is not enough to sustain Wang Lung as he rises and gains more and more, Now, his social status becomes influential to him with a need for silk clothes, concubines and better houses, He lets the gain influence his actions and he begins to head down a darker moral path, The once important traditional values now begin to erode with the corruption of wealth, Thus it is too late when Wang Lung realizes that his sons are destined to repeat the same negative path that the sons of the House of Hwang made by severing their ties with all their father has created.



The plot is minimal focusing on the daily duties and rituals of a rural Chinese life at a time when famine, flood and poverty can upend a plentiful harvest time causing death and ruin.
Many rural people were forced to flee south to the city for survival, Wang Lungs family finds themselves in this situation, away from their livelihood of farming because there was nothing to produce, City life proved abominable for Wangs family, Olan sets to begging with their children while Wang barely earns enough to feed them daily while pulling a rickshaw, Here is when Wang discovers just how much of an alien he is because the culture of the city is nothing like his own home in the rural province.


He lived in the rich city as an alien as a rat in a rich mans house that is fed on scraps thrown away, and hides here and there and is never a part of the real life of the house.


The Good Earth highlights many Chinese practices such as foot binding, opiumsmoking, female infanticide, and concubines, Olans strong female character shows some of the the hardships and limitations women endured, Her own daughter was called a poor fool and many families sold their girls into slavery in order to survive.


Pearl S. Buck won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel inandyears later she won the Nobel Prize,
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