Сыновья

Vtorai͡a kniga grandioznoĭ semeĭnoĭ sagi, nachavsheĭsi͡a s "Zemli", za kotorui͡u pisatelʹnit͡sa byla udostoena Nobelevskoĭ premii po literature. Khoti͡a v "Synovʹi͡akh" i rasskazyvaetsi͡a o dalʹneĭsheĭ sudʹbe synoveĭ Van Luna, ėto zakonchennyĭ i samostoi͡atelʹnyĭ roman. Kazhdyĭ iz synoveĭ vybiraet svoĭ putʹ: odin prini͡al bogatstvo semʹi i stal pomeshchikom, drugoĭ - prot͡svetai͡ushchim torgovt͡sem i rostovshchikom, a mladshiĭ, voennyĭ, mechtaet statʹ liderom strany. I kazhdyĭ iz nikh gotov predatʹ i prodatʹ rodnui͡u zemli͡u, kotorai͡a sdelala ott͡sa bogatym i mogushchestvennym, radi vygody, sobstvennykh udovolʹstviĭ i ambit͡siĭ. I vesʹ Kitaĭ meni͡aetsi͡a v ozhestochennoĭ borʹbe mezhdu starym i novym…

The second book of a grandiose family saga that began with "Earth", for which the writer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Although "Sons" tells about the fate of Wang Lung's sons, it is a complete and independent novel. Each of the sons chooses his own path: one accepted the family's wealth and became a landowner, the other is a prosperous merchant and moneylender, and the youngest, a military man, dreams of becoming the country's leader. And each of them is ready to betray and sell their native land, which made their father rich and powerful, for the sake of profit, their own pleasures and ambitions. And the whole of China is changing in the fierce struggle between the old and the new.…