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Sons by Pearl Buck
We do want to know others - other countries, other religions, other languages. But we also want to connect with them - relate to the these people. Even in the books we read. That hardly happens when we read an English book by a western writer - more often British or American writer. Not only are the English, seven seas apart, have their cultures so unlike ours. Even the stories of common folk, even the stories of farmers, not relate to us. We may like the story line, we may bleed out our heart for their protagonists, but we never feel that 'apnapan' - kindred spirit. This relating happened after a long time, when I was listening to the book 'The sons' by Nobel Laureate Pearl Buck. It is a book about a farmer family in China. The book was written hundred years ago - but being an Asian society, it sounded more like our society of yesteryear. The book is a sequel to 'The Good Earth'. And is the story of three sons of the protagonist of Good Earth. Three sons