One of the most touching episodes is during the famine when the baby daughter is hungry, and the father chews some food and feeds her, since that is the best he can do to try to keep her alive.
These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
The Good Earth; by Pearl S. Buck.
A poor rural Chinese life in north - the woman the story begins with is poor and tall and not pretty, with large (read unbound, since only rich families could afford to bind their daughters' feet so they stayed small, while poor families needed girls and women to work on farms and in homes) feet is married to a poor farmer, and makes it better with her work and her frugal ways and her craft and her knowledge, so eventually they prosper - though they have to deal with a famine in the meanwhile and even have to migrate south to a large city so they can survive.
One of the most touching episodes is during the famine when the baby daughter is hungry, and the father chews some food and feeds her, since that is the best he can do to try to keep her alive.
One of the most touching episodes is during the famine when the baby daughter is hungry, and the father chews some food and feeds her, since that is the best he can do to try to keep her alive.