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    La Buena Tierra
    La Buena Tierra
    La Buena Tierra
    Audiobook (abridged)3 hours

    La Buena Tierra

    Written by Pearl S. Buck

    Narrated by Laura García

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    Con La Buena Tierra la escritora estadounidense Pearl Buck gano el Premio Nobel de 1938, ya que este retrato de un campesino chino, pobrisimo, que a medida que va consiguiendo riquezas se vuelve mas depravado y se llena de vicios, tiene características universales y su hermoso lirismo, ademas de lo fuerte del argumento convirtio la novela en un clasico desde su misma publicacion. Es una obra inolvidable y hay quienes aseguran que la pueden leer una y otra vez, por que en esta obra siempre se encuentra algo nuevo.
    LanguageEspañol
    PublisherYOYO USA
    Release dateJan 1, 2002
    ISBN9781611553857
    La Buena Tierra
    Author

    Pearl S. Buck

    Pearl S. Buck (1892–1973) was a bestselling and Nobel Prize–winning author. Her classic novel The Good Earth (1931) was awarded a Pulitzer Prize and William Dean Howells Medal. Born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, Buck was the daughter of missionaries and spent much of the first half of her life in China, where many of her books are set. In 1934, civil unrest in China forced Buck back to the United States. Throughout her life she worked in support of civil and women’s rights, and established Welcome House, the first international, interracial adoption agency. In addition to her highly acclaimed novels, Buck wrote two memoirs and biographies of both of her parents. For her body of work, Buck received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938, the first American woman to have done so. She died in Vermont. 

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    • 5/5
      This book is a spell-binding classic. Written in the early 1930's, it tells of the rise and fall of a peasant farmer, Wang Lu and his family. Wang Lu comes to venerate his land and the land is both good and bad to him, depending upon the gods (seasons). He marries an ordinary peasant slave, O-Lan and they have 3 sons, a daughter, and a poor fool. (girl who is dumbfounded). Wang Lu throughout most of the story acts as a righteous husband and father. However, lust and women get the better of him and in his older age causes nothing but problems. In the end, the rich Wang Lu wants nothing more than to be buried on his precious land next to his father and O-Lan. From dust you come and from dust ye shall return.....
    • 5/5
      Interesante. Me dejo pensando .... un ciclo .. donde los hombres siempre están en mejor situación y condición .. sentí escalofrío.
    • 5/5
      Me gusto mucho este libro, esta narrado a buen tono de voz y la historia es llevadera y nada pesada.
    • 5/5
      Excelente libro, y una gran narración, una obra maestra totalmente
    • 4/5
      Me pareció una novela muy interesante. La versión corta que se nos presenta es fluida y se comprende bien el mensaje cenral. Me dejó un buen sabor de boca y ganas de leer la versión conpleta. La narración tiene buen ritmo y es agradable. Definitivamente reconendable.
    • 1/5
      Not really my type of book
    • 5/5
      Que bonita historia....lo que no te cuesta no lo valoras
    • 5/5
      This book is a spell-binding classic. Written in the early 1930's, it tells of the rise and fall of a peasant farmer, Wang Lu and his family. Wang Lu comes to venerate his land and the land is both good and bad to him, depending upon the gods (seasons). He marries an ordinary peasant slave, O-Lan and they have 3 sons, a daughter, and a poor fool. (girl who is dumbfounded). Wang Lu throughout most of the story acts as a righteous husband and father. However, lust and women get the better of him and in his older age causes nothing but problems. In the end, the rich Wang Lu wants nothing more than to be buried on his precious land next to his father and O-Lan. From dust you come and from dust ye shall return.....
    • 4/5
      Cuando flor de peral decide, sin interés monetario de por medio, hacerse cargo de la tonta
    • 5/5
      Una delicia para los fanáticos de los libros de época. La descripción de la vida sencilla en las campiñas pobres de China, detalles de la cotidianidad de aquellas familias.

      Un texto ameno que además se disfruta muchísimo en el agradable timbre y dramatización de la narradora. ¡Se me fue como beber un vaso de agua de principio a fin! Gracias por hacerlo posible.
    • 5/5
      The Good Earth gets me check marks on two lists. It won the 1932 Pulitzer plus Pearl Buck won the Nobel Prize. At least as important, it's a lovely book. Characters that grip you, an interesting story set in interesting times and beautiful writing. (For some reason, the cadence of the writing reminded me of the Bible. I found it to be very poetic prose.) It's set in late 19th/early 20th century rural China taking the hero, Wang Lung, from early manhood to his death. Wang is an honest, hard-working, thrifty farmer who marries an equally honest, hard-working and very selfless woman. Together they battle the elements to make their way in the world. He is very much a product of his culture in which there is a definite social hierarchy based on fortune, gender and age and that, plus the moments when he loses his way, sometimes made me want to sit him down for a good talking to but never made me lose interest in him or sympathy for him. I'm sorry I waited so long to read it.
    • 4/5
      This book broke my heart.
    • 5/5
      This is a family legacy book, a personal saga, a chronicle of the life and times of the main man Wang Lung. We follow his life in early 20th C China from the start of manhood, and his acquisition of a wife, to his last days. The times are hard, and intense, and even though big things are happening socially and politically, the book sees these changes thorough the eyes of Wang Lung. That is to say we dont see or hear about them unless they directly affect his life. This is as it would be when your primary goal is the survival of your family. This book was so good. So much happens yet the words are not crammed in. We are left with an impression of a man and his times that is so comprehensive. The pride and strength of Wang Lung are obvious, yet he also struggles with the ugly side of pride. His lifelong search for contentment is in vain which raises the question of how much does one need to feel happy. The tale is one of human nature, and in this regard it does a superb job of laying it out like it is.
    • 5/5
      The word epic was created for this book. Not really, but it could have been. The Good Earth is epic in every sense of the word. The Good Earth tells the story of Wang Lung, a Chinese farmer and his family as they struggle to survive a peasant life in old China. It begins with Wang Lung looking at his old father saying, "I need a woman," to him getting said woman, to them having lots of children. In between there are times of plenty, times of famine, births, deaths, and the acquiring of more land, more glorious land! Wang Lung is obsessed with land! Okay, it's about a whole lot more, but I don't want to give too much away.And the writing. The writing is so beautiful. Witness:"There was only this perfect sympathy of movement, of turning this earth of theirs over and over to the sun, this earth which formed their home and fed their bodies and made their gods?Some time, in some age, bodies of men and women had been buried there, houses had stood there, had fallen, and gone back into the earth. So would also their house, some time, return into the earth, their bodies also. Each had his turn at this earth. They worked on, moving together-together-producing the fruit of this earth."and"Wang Lung sat smoking, thinking of the silver as it had lain upon the table. It had come out of the earth, this silver, out of the 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. Each time before this that he had taken the silver out to give to anyone, it had been like taking a piece of his life and giving it to someone carelessly. But not for the first time, such giving was not pain. He saw, not the silver in the alien hand of a merchant in the town; he saw the silver transmuted into something worth even more than life itself - clothes upon the body of his son."and"But Wang Lung thought of his land and pondered this way and that, with the sickened heart of deferred hope, how he could get back to it. He belonged, not to this scum which clung to the walls of a rich man?s house; nor did he belong to the rich man?s house. He belonged to the land and he could not live with any fullness until he felt the land under his feet and followed a plow in the springtime and bore a scythe in his hand at harvest."Oh, I could quote the whole book at you. Every word, every sentence, felt so carefully constructed, so lovingly crafted. The main characters were so well written. This book was made for me. Or, rather, I was made for it. Either way you put it, I loved this book. The gardener in me loved the farmer in there. Wang Lung was born into a farming family and he embraced it. To say the land was the blood running through is veins is putting it VERY mildly. I have to say, loving land seems like such a Southern thing to me. That probably sounds narrow-minded, but I grew up hearing things like "Buy land, they won't make any more of it," and "Hold on to your land" etc, etc. My grandparents (who raised me) were Irish descendants, so I always assumed it was an Irish thing. Plus, I've never read a book set in China where someone was so obsessed with his land. Truthfully, I've never read a book where a character was so obsessed with land! I am thrilled to have finally read this book!Fair warning, we're probably getting into spoiler territory, but I have to get this off my chest.The only thing I just couldn't get over was the treatment of women. Wow, did the Chinese have a low opinion of girls and women. I felt for O-lan. Oh, how I felt for O-lan. Acquired from a great house where she was a kitchen slave, she did not find herself elevated very much upon becoming Wang Lung's wife. He treated her like a possession. He consistently mistreated her. When she arises from giving birth to their first child, she comes back to the field to help. him. work. And does she get a thank you? No. She gets his silent admiration, which means nothing. He never appreciated her until she was gone. And that made me hate Wang Lung. There were many things I liked about him, but that. That was inexcusable. Makes me glad the revolution happened and I hope the Chinese have improved their attitudes.Okay, rant over.I listened to the audio production by Blackstone Audio. Anthony Heald read The Good Earth and did a marvelous job. I have never listened to him read a book before, but I will definitely seek him out in the future. I loved the way he did the old man, Wang Lung's father. And he was able to feminize his voice for the women, despite having quite a deep voice. All in all, he made it a pleasure to listen to this book.
    • 4/5
      Very verbose story of the rise of a farmer to wealth. Many of the details were illuminating while others were tedious. I felt the story line was too drawn out and the impact of the plot could've been made ? way through the novel. Of course it is extremely well written (I.e. It is s Pulitzer Prize winning work), but perhaps literary style does not translate into modern times.
    • 4/5
      Great book. Plus, now I finally get all of the references my grandmother makes to birthing children in rice paddys.
    • 4/5
      This book is absolutely heart breaking. Buck paints a vivid picture of Chinese village life. The main character is Wang Lung, and the story follows him and his family's struggles, rises, and falls. While it was initially hard to care for Wang Lung, by the end you feel so strongly for him that the ending will make you writhe in anger. I can't wait to start "Sons" next!
    • 3/5
      Lectura facil. Terminó abruptamente pero bien. Es corto y se lee rápido.
    • 4/5
      Great book. Plus, now I finally get all of the references my grandmother makes to birthing children in rice paddys.
    • 5/5
      This is a beautiful novel. The main character and the family he surrounds himself with are richly imagined and given vivid detail in an intricately described society.
    • 4/5
      The story did keep me interested. I don't know if she used the writing style she did to convey the simplicity of Wang Lung, a poor farmer and his family or if she used the same style throughout all her books. I did find the sentence structure a bit awkward in spots so it didn't flow as smoothly as it might have, but there was enough historical reference to date the story to just before the Boxer Rebellion and through the Revolution of 1911.
    • 4/5
      I read this book for the first time in 7th grade and just finished rereading it and experience reading the book couldn't be more different. What I remembered about the book before rereading it was that it was about a man and his land with his wife and how they struggled then changed when they had money. Rereading it, it was more sad and I hated the main character in the 2nd half of the book. I also didn't remember anything after O'lan dies, I suspect in 7th grade we read a slimmed down version. I didn't enjoy the book as much after O'lan dies it felt like the rest of the book was about waiting for Wang Lung to die as well even though he wasn't that old, he just kept preparing for it. I liked the foreshadowing from the beginning about the old house, I was glad to see that the end didn't exactly copy the fall of the old house but lead you to believe it was leading that way considering the sons wanted to sell the land. The ending was well done, but felt very rushed and random the last few chapters.This is a great book to read, lots of interesting characters and it's about their lifetime and it does the time really well.
    • 4/5
      I loved the first 3/4 of this novel. The struggle of an incredibly poor Chinese family during ancient times. The father loved to farm and di what he needed to do to see his family survive. The last of the novel seem to slow and wasn't as fun to read. A sad ending that took a long time to get to.
    • 4/5
      A really different world than the one I know, but certainly familiar in a few ways. Very absorbing story.
    • 4/5
      Very good Chinese story of peasants, hardships, and love.
    • 5/5
      In my quest to read all the books in my inherited library, I finally decided to read this one. When I opened it, I found my grandfather's name written on the inside next to my mother's, so I know I'm the third generation in my family to enjoy this extraordinary masterpiece. The copy I have is very old—10th printing in 1942—and I had to hold it gently while reading since the pages are yellowed, thin, and easy to rip. It was a joy to read. The writing style is simple, yet each sentence tells two stories. The first one is about the life of the farmer, Wang Lung, and the second tells us about human nature.Although the story gives us a fascinating view into old Chinese culture when just surviving was a struggle, it also tells the story of how success can warp a person's perception of what's essential and what is not. Wang Lung and his wife, O-Lan, work hard to feed their growing family, always believing the land is their most important possession. They sacrifice everything to give their children a better life. However, by taking the struggle out of life, their sons lose sight of what's important. They demonstrate this in the end by planning to sell the land their father struggled so hard to acquire—the very thing that gave them the wealthy life they now live. I suppose it's human nature for parents to want their kids' lives to be better than theirs. But, it sometimes backfires big time.
    • 4/5
      This is a rather easy book to read. I'd say it's high school level. I liked the story though. It's a little slow at times, but I like how Buck writes. It simple and to the point. At times you can tell this is written by an American, but it really doesn't effect the story.

      The main reason I read this is because Buck had a house in Vermont. I use to hear abut her and Shirley Jackson all the time. I believe we drove by Bucks house before in Danby, I could be wrong. But kind of reading her because you can call her a Vermont writer.

      I can also see why this won the Pulitzer and why she won the Nobel as well.
    • 5/5
      An incredible piece of work really and easy to see why it won a Pulitzer. I don't give five stars out every time, but this book deserves it.
    • 3/5
      This novel, published in 1931 and set in very early 20th century China, is often credited with predisposing the American public to sympathize with China against Japan just prior to World War II. I suppose it is worth reading for its historical significance alone, but in my opinion it is greatly overrated in terms of its literary quality. The book tells the story of O-Lan, a plain, humble woman who marries a farmer named Wang Lung. O-Lan totally subordinates herself to her husband, as was the expected role of a woman in pre-revolutionary China. The story is tragic from the standpoint of O-Lan, but Buck’s writing style can be characterized as attempted portentousness, thus seeming pretentious. (JAB)
    • 4/5
      This is another book for our work book club- and it was a really good read. I can see why it won the Pulitzer. I'm glad I read it. However, its not one I want to read again.On the top, its a simple book about a farmer trying to survive with the bare minimum. The farmer seems satisfied, but on a deeper read, he wants more. With themes of family and cycles, doing whatever it takes for survival vs honor, its not so simple.At times, its seems too simple. For example, its missing the larger community, and how Wang Lung and his family interact with them. The story also skips years, with only a mention of ages (eg the oldest son wants to marry). This is intentionally vague by the writer, but at times, a bit jarring for a reader.And last, this is not an easy book to read. Its simply written, but it deals with themes of starvation, survival, and all that comes with this.