The Mother (Version 2)


Read by Michele Fry

(4.9 stars; 7 reviews)

As with Pearl Buck's most famous 1st novel, The Good Earth, this 2nd book also describes peasant life in rural China about 150 years ago--from a woman's close perspective. Life was gruelingly hard. The people were illiterate, superstitious, uneducated, provincial, the culture entirely male dominated. And yet, this book captures the dignity, pleasures, hopes, fears and dreams shared among villagers despite their extreme poverty, and the influence exerted by women over their families. Themes of love, lust, greed, gambling, chauvinism, narcissism, crime, greed, injustice, tyranny, revolution, abortion, etc., are all masterfully woven into the narrative of one unnamed mother's devotion, without a moment of preaching, in this poignantly beautiful masterpiece. (Summary by Michele Fry, BC and Soloist) (7 hr 45 min)

Chapters

Chapter 1 26:59 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 2 11:16 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 3 8:53 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 4, Part 1 24:04 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 4, Part 2 17:18 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 5, Part 1 26:03 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 5, Part 2 22:51 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 6 14:28 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 7 9:05 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 8 13:53 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 9 26:16 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 10 12:45 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 11, Part 1 26:00 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 11, Part 2 21:08 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 12 17:43 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 13 14:16 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 14 29:18 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 15 28:17 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 16 31:53 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 17 15:47 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 18 9:53 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 19, Part 1 30:29 Read by Michele Fry
Chapter 19, Part 2 26:52 Read by Michele Fry