The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck and tales of young professionals

and tales of young professionals trying to find their feet as they climb up the corporate ladder

Business as usual for Sid

reports of similar occurrences surface across the land

Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s

Collen's book is a revelatory and indispensable guide

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck and tales of young professionalsWhen O lan, a servant girl, marries the peasant Wan Lung, she toils tirelessly through four pregnancies for their family's survival. Reward is meagre, but there is sustenance in the land until the famine comes. Half starved, the family joins thousands to beg on the city streets. All seems lost, until O lan's desperate will to survive returns them home with undreamt of wealth. But they have betrayed the earth from which true wealth springs, and the