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The Mother

by Pearl S. Buck

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First published
1933
Pages
134
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Spring planting leaves a farm mother little time to spare when her hungry children call her home. In a small thatched house, she cooks over a grass fire while her elderly mother-in-law talks beside the stove. Fuel must last until fresh growth can be gathered, and the rice straw is valuable enough to sell in town. This novel makes household decisions part of the same struggle as fieldwork, with each meal depending on careful use of scarce resources.

Family affection has its own demands. The mother answers the old woman's worries, tends her children and argues with her husband about the work expected of her. Later, a son asks her to hide a bundle he says contains sheepskins. She welcomes his confidence and presses him to marry, while he speaks of younger people setting aside those expectations.

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Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973) was an American writer and humanitarian whose work included novels, biography, translation, journalism and screenwriting. She received the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1932 and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1938. Her titles include "The Mother".

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First published
1933
Reading time
About 6 hours
Pages
134
Language
English
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