The second installment in Pearl S. Buck’s acclaimed Good Earth trilogy is the powerful story of three brothers whose greed will bring their family to the brink of ruin. At once a tribute to early Chinese fiction, a saga of family dissension, and a depiction of the clashes between old and new, this is a vivid and compelling masterwork of fiction.

“[With Sons] Buck has enriched her wide canvas.” —The New York Times

A man returns to his native China to find upheaval in both his homeland and his personal life—torn by the tensions between old traditions and new ways, and by his formidable family, whose struggles he hopes to solve.

“A rich and illuminating book.” —The New York Times

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An unforgettable novel of one woman’s strength and perseverance—whose joys are few and hardships are many—in a remote village in pre-Communist China, told with “an architectural unity and a driving simplicity and strength” (The New York Times).

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A “vivid and extremely interesting” novel of an upper-class Chinese wife’s quest for freedom, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Good Earth (The New Yorker).

“Beautifully written...a fine, full flavorsome novel.” —Newsweek