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The Mother : A Novel by Pearl S. Buck, Germaine Delamain is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Within this novel Ms. Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with the new ideals of the communist era, this peasant woman must find a balance between them and deal with the consequences.Review"Mrs Buck has never done better work than this. By a great gift of intuition she has entered into the mind, heart and spirit of the Chinese peasant woman and revealed the permanent values of life..." -- TLS. "THE MOTHER has an architectural unity and a driving simplicity and strength to a degree more marked than in and of Mrs Buck's previous work. That simplicity and strength has almost an elemental quality. And not only that; it has been Mrs Buck's achievement that she has rendered this life of a people alien from ourselves in terms of universal human values..." -- The New York Times. About the AuthorPearl S. Buck was born in West Virginia and taken to China as an infant before the turn of the century. Buck grew up speaking Chinese as well as English. She is the most widely translated American author to this day. She has been awarded the Pu

Who reads The Mother : A Novel?

Author

Pearl S. Buck, Germaine Delamain

Publisher

Pocket

Published

1945

Language

EN

ISBN

9781453263495

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.98 / 5 (265 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14