Otros dioses

by Pearl S. Buck

In this novel about a troubled marriage, Pearl S. Buck contrasts adoration and love.

Paperback

First published January 1, 1940

About the author

Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker Buck was an American writer and novelist. She is best known for The Good Earth, the best-selling novel in the United States in 1931 and 1932 and which won her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932. In 1938, Buck became the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature "for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China" and for her "masterpieces", two memoir-biographies of her missionary parents.
Buck was born in West Virginia, but in October 1892, her parents took their 4-month-old baby to China. As the daughter of missionaries and later as a missionary herself, Buck spent most of her life before 1934 in Zhenjiang, with her parents, and in Nanjing, with her first husband. She and her parents spent their summers in a villa in Kuling, Mount Lu, Jiujiang, and it was during this annual pilgrimage that the young girl decided to become a writer. She graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, then returned to China. From 1914 to 1932, after marrying John Lossing Buck she served as a Presbyterian missionary, but she came to doubt the need for foreign missions. Her views became controversial during the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy, leading to her resignation. After returning to the United States in 1935, she married the publisher Richard J. Walsh and continued writing prolifically. She became an activist and prominent advocate of the rights of women and racial equality, and wrote widely on Chinese and Asian cultures, becoming particularly well known for her efforts on behalf of Asian and mixed-race adoption.

Reviews

[Ruth]

I enjoyed this book. It is basically about the human need to have someone to worship. Bert Holm becomes such a person. America is ready for a hero and when Bert climbs a mountain on his own he seems like the natural choice. Although he is a very ordinary and simple person, albeit very good-looking, he becomes a God like figure; worshipped by millions. His life is carefully stage managed by a spin doctor so that he never falls from grace, despite making a number of very human errors. It is an interesting take on human nature and human simplicity and stupidity. It is very well written, with some interesting characters and ideas but it is, in my opinion, far too long.

[Ocamposeliana]

Un libro sobre la necesidad humana de tener dioses, ídolos, alguien en quien depositar esperanza y admiración. El culto a falsos héroes, que no son más que personas con todos sus defectos al igual que cualquiera.

[Julie Fukuda]

Because of busy days and stop and start reading, this book took longer than expected to finish. I think I would have enjoyed it more had I read it in a few long sittings.

[Melodie]

Beautiful prose and wonderful story. Ending is perfect.

[Carolyn]

You have to have imagination to be afraid.

[Martina]

I can’t help but give her 5 stars! She is a master!

[Suada]

"Ova knjiga je posvećena svim onim bespomoćnim ljudskim stvorenjima koja su ljudi,nekom slučajnošću,za trenutak ili vječnost pretvorili u božanstva "
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[Bistra Ivanova]

it's about the human need to have a real god, forget the one with the white beard sitting on a cloud and watching us all and imagine the hero of the day, the one who gives you hope and make your dreams come true
but that god is not real and realizing that may be hard; the book is about that
i definitely expected more from pearl buck, she has better novels

[Zei]

"-The crowd never worships the true god. The crowd -lost-runs after a dream. The true god is far away...
She watched him walk away as if to that god of his. She knew the name of that god was Truth, and that the crowd feared him and made other gods instead."
The books speaks for itself and needs no review!

[Kristen]

Why do we worship other people? Movie stars, athletes, they're all just people like us who happen to do something that we haven't. This book was a good read about Hero Worship and the people who get caught up in it.

[John]

hero worship or GOD ?? I am not sure but I enjoyed this book so much.