Just wanted to talk about the last book I read: it is The Good Earth (La Terre Chinoise), from Pearl Buck.

I really enjoyed reading it, and I haven’t seen the time passing by while in the train (took me 8 hours to read it).

So, if you’re looking for some special reading, then I will recommand you this book. You can read the summary, taken from Wikipedia:

Story summary

It is the story of a peasant family in China in a times of famine, flood, and prosperity. A peasant Wang Lung who lives with his widowed father, marries O-Lan, the homely former slave of a wealthy household, the Hwang Family.

Through frugality and hard work they fare relatively better than other farmers in the village. However, as the weather turns disastrous for farming, the family, now grown to include the couple’s three children, has to flee to the city to find work. They sell their meager possessions (but not the land) and take the train for the first time.
While at the city, O-Lan and the children beg and Wang Lung pulls a rickshaw. They find themselves aliens among their more metropolitan countrymen and foreigners. They no longer starve, but still live like paupers: Wang Lung’s work is barely able to pay for the rickshaw rental, and the family eats at public kitchens. Meanwhile, the hostile political climate continues to worsen, and Wang Lung longs to return to the land. They are able to do so after a riot gives Wang Lung some wealth, after a frightened rich man hands him a bag of gold thinking that his life will be spared, though some of it is because his wife, knowing the household of a wealthy family, knew where to look for valuables.

Upon returning to their home the family fares better. With their money from the city Wang Lung is able to buy an ox, farm tools, and hires help. He is eventually able to send his sons to school, build a new house and live comfortably. However, the wealth of the family is tied to the harvests of Wang Lung’s land – the good earth of the novel. Wang Lung prospers with the earth, and eventually becomes a man of prosperity, with his rise mirroring the downfall of the Hwang family, who lose their connection to the land. Wang eventually falls to the vices of rich food and takes a concubine. At the end of the novel, Wang Lung’s sons also start to lose their connection to the earth, plotting to sell it, thus showing the end of the cycle of wealth and downfall.