The Mother

By Germaine Delamain, Pearl S. Buck

Subjects: Women peasants, Mothers, Fiction, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Communism, American prose literature, American literature, Modern Translations into Greek, Fiction in English

Description: Pearl Buck paints the portrait of a poor woman living in a remote village whose joys are few and hardships are many. As the ancient traditions, which she bases her philosophies upon, begin to collide with the new ideals of the communist era, this peasant woman must find a balance between them and deal with the consequences.