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'The Good Earth' - The novel, which dramatizes family life in a Chinese village before World War 1

The Good Earth - by Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth - by Pearl S. Buck

The Good Earth is a novel by Pearl S. Buck published in 1931 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1938.The book was translated into Sinhalese by Dr Hemapala Jayawardhana and the Ven: Urapola Hemaloka.The book was adapted into a name as The Good EarthIn this month SBS Sinhalese world literary discussion focuses on this book. Melbourne based writer Dilini Iriyawala joined SBS Sinhalese to talk more on this.



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