Pearl S. Buck
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In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but distant rumblings. This moving story of the honest farmer Wang Lung and his selfless wife O-Lan is must reading to fully appreciate the sweeping changes that have occurred in the lives of the Chinese people during the last century. Though more than eighty years...
2) The big wave
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English
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His family and village swept away by a tidal wave, Jiya learns to live with the ever-present dangers from the sea and volcano.