SOLVED. Fiction: Ancient China population is starving and a man wants to buy land to grow rice. [s]

[Steven]

I read the original condensed Readers Digest version over a decade ago.The story ends with the starving poor robbing the wealthy class in the city.

[Becca]

Are you sure you mean non-fiction? Non-fiction means fact, e.g. a memoir or a history book. I don't think Reader's Digest publish non-fiction, but they do published condensed novels (fiction).

Hopefully someone here will know the book but if not you could browse through a complete list of Reader's Digest Select Editions (published 1997-present) or Reader's Digest Condensed Books (published 1950-1997) to see if you recognise the title or author's name when you see it.

[Steven]

Yes I meant Fiction and thank you very much for the link. I suspected as much. Not only did I find the book, I learned it is part of a trilogy. Excited to read the other stories. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

[Kris]

Thanks. Updated topic header with "Fiction."

[Andy]

Thought it might have been the Good Earth.

[Kris]

Steven, glad you found your book The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck.