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    <body><![CDATA[One of the women in my book group recommended this, and we discussed it yesterday.  Another of our members, a retired college English professor, is an expert on Pearl S. Buck, and she led the discussion.  I had read <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The Good Earth" title="The Good Earth">The Good Earth</a> years ago and looked forward to another book by Mrs. Buck.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33191353">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Pearl S. Buck, The Mother (Pocket, 1934)<br/><br/>It is hard to know what to make of this early novel (her fourth) by Pearl S. Buck, who had won the Pulitzer Prize the year before for The Good Earth (her second) and would, in a few years, be a Nobel laureate. Hard because it is difficult to reconcil...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13271778">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book it not as well known as &quot;The Good Earth&quot; but the story is timeless.  It details the joys and sorrow in the life of a very poor Chinese peasant set in about 1930.   It is very moving and a good character protrai of the &quot;mother&quot; in the story.  Well worth your time.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[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.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[زن های چینی و زن های ایرانی ، مادرهای چینی و مادرهای ایرانی ، دخترهای چینی و دخترهای ایرانی ... حداقل اونا خودشون رو گول نمی زنن ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was on a Pearl S. Buck kick for awhile. It was interesting to read about the mother's position in Chinese culture. The wife of he first-born son moves into the parents house with her husband, and serves his parents. Eventually the son and his wife will own the land, and make the decisions, but not...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17845873">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Me and Jen found this book at the bookstore in Little Switzerland...very exciting find cuz it matches the Pearl Buck books I got from grandma Mary.  Yay...can't wait to read it!!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[a bit depressing...her husband left her and so it goes on and on with her trials etc]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[قلم پرل باک را خیلی دوست دارم. غیر از زنانه نویسی، بسیار مسلط است بر داستانهایش. نکته مهم اینکه نژاد چینی ندارد ولی تمام آثارش درباره چین است. این درست که سالها آنجا زن...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7589082">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved and hated this book at the same time, but it has been a few months since I read this book and I am still thinking about it-- so it must mean that it was a well written book. There were times when I could so relate to what the mother was feeling and experiencing and other times when her decis...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48733706">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Being in Okinawa, a place with a huge influence from China, this book was so insightful.  As an American raised in China, Pearl Buck has a unique perspective on the Chinese culture.  But what I love about this book is that it tells a tale of mothers, and how beautifully and wonderfully the cycle of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13494805">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[How fantasticly she figures the cruelity and poverty of a society. The conversations are limited but it's not difficult to feel the blue and the lonliness of the &quot;Mother&quot;,,]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Have read this many times. It is a great book.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I was crying while reading this touching story!]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[lido em português: A Mãe]]></body>
    
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