The Good Earth by Pearl S. BuckI. Description.The book I'm reading is called "The Good Earth". It is written by the wonderful author Pearl S. Buck. The book is three hundred and fifty-seven pages long. The book is about Wang Lung, a young and poor farmer who lives in China at a time when signs of modernization are appearing, but Chinese culture remains deeply tied to ancient traditions and customs. . When Wang Lung approaches the age to marry his father. He approaches the local Hwang family to ask if they have a spare slave who could marry his son. The Hwangs agree to sell a 20-year-old slave named O-lan to Wang. Wang and O-lan get married. They are happy but they are talking about barley. Wang is disappointed that O-lan doesn't have his feet bound. Together, Wang Lung and O-lan grow a profitable crop on their land. O-lan becomes pregnant and her first child is a son. Meanwhile, the powerful Hwang family collapses. Wang Lung can buy part of the rice fields from the Hwang family. He enjoys another profitable harvest. O-lan gives birth to her second son. Wang Lung's new wealth attracts his uncle's attention. Custom says that Wang Lung should show the greatest respect to the elderly, especially their loved ones. So obliged that he lends his uncle money knowing that the money will be wasted on drinking and gambling. The Hwang family's finances continued to collapse, and the Hwangs sold another piece of land to Wang Lung. O-lan then gives birth to a daughter. It was then that a terrible famine took hold in the country. O-lan gives birth to another girl during a seizure, so she strangles the second girl because there isn't enough food to feed the baby and the rest of the family. Wang Lung is forced to take his family to a southern city for the winter. There, O-lan and the children beg while Wang Lung earns money by transporting people in a rented rickshaw. They earn just enough money to eat. He and O-lan briefly consider selling their surviving daughter into slavery. Eventually, a group of poor and desperate people ransack a rich man's house, and Wang Lung and O-lan join them. Wang Lung steals a bunch of gold coins. With this new wealth, he takes the family home and buys a new ox and some seeds. O-lan had stolen some jewelry during the looting.