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';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.' The Times Literary SupplementDickensian in its epic sweep, one of Buck's finest novels centers on an unnamed peasant woman in pre-revolutionary China. Without warning, her restless husband abandons her. Shamed by the experience, she is left to work the land, raise their three children on her own, and care for her aging mother-in-law. To save face with her neighbors, she pretends her husband is traveling, and sends letters to herself signed in his name. Surrounded by poverty, despair, and a growing web of lies meant to protect the family, her children grow up and enter society with only the support of their mother's unbreakable will.An unforgettable story of one woman's strength and a remarkable fable about the role of mothers, this novel is a powerful achievement by a master of twentieth-century fiction.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate.… (más)
La madre es la historia de una mujer china, en el marco histórico de la década de 1930, a quien no se da nombre propio alguno en la novela, pues sólo se hablará, en alguna ocasión, y como incidentalmente, de una tal familia Li, y que personifica a la sufrida madre rural china, constituyendo una contrafuga de la O-Lang que aparece en La buena tierra.
UNA MADRE JÓVEN, TRABAJADORA, CON TRES HIJOS, ES ABANDONADA POR SU MARIDO. ELLA LO JUSTIFICA Y REDOBLA SU TRABAJO. REENVIÁNDOSE SU PROPIO DINERO PARA ENCUBRIRLO. LAS CATÁSTROFES FAMILIARES SE SUCEDEN, Y SU PAPEL ES FORZADO, NO SE RECONOCE, QUEDANDO RELEGADA AL DE UNA ANCIANA DEPENDIENTE DE SU HIJO CASADO. ( )
Historia de una mujer pobre en la China pre-comunista que tiene que enfrentarse a diversos y poderosos enemigos: la opinión pública en una pequeña y entrometida aldea, el paso del tiempo y el tener que apartarse para dar paso a los nuevos jóvenes y sus innovaciones. Relato costumbrista que narra con crudeza e intimidad la vida de la anónima madre.
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In the kitchen of the small thatched farm-house the mother sat on a low bamboo stool behind the earthen stove and fed grass deftly into the hole where a fire burned beneath the iron cauldron.
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Then when she found the face she sought the old mother held the child for the other one to see and forgetting all the roomful she cried aloud, laughing as she cried, her eyes all swelled with her past weeping, "See cousin! I doubt I was full of sin as once I thought I was, cousin - you see my grandson!"
';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.' The Times Literary SupplementDickensian in its epic sweep, one of Buck's finest novels centers on an unnamed peasant woman in pre-revolutionary China. Without warning, her restless husband abandons her. Shamed by the experience, she is left to work the land, raise their three children on her own, and care for her aging mother-in-law. To save face with her neighbors, she pretends her husband is traveling, and sends letters to herself signed in his name. Surrounded by poverty, despair, and a growing web of lies meant to protect the family, her children grow up and enter society with only the support of their mother's unbreakable will.An unforgettable story of one woman's strength and a remarkable fable about the role of mothers, this novel is a powerful achievement by a master of twentieth-century fiction.This ebook features an illustrated biography of Pearl S. Buck including rare images from the author's estate.
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