Wang Yuan does not seek to follow the path of his father, the famous warlord nicknamed Tiger, he likes to live and work on the land, as his grandfather did. However, fate dictates otherwise: the young man will have to flee to the West. Six years full of trials and discoveries will be spent in foreign lands, and returning to his native China, he will face upheavals affecting not only the country, but also his family. Wang Yuan will find himself in a whirlpool of contradictions, where Western and Eastern cultures, traditional values and modern ideas, as well as ideologies of different generations collide. And he will have to learn to live in a new reality and understand that the world is not divided into black and white, but is filled with many shades of gray, where real feelings and difficult destinies are hidden. Although The Divided House is the final book of a grandiose family saga, it is a full-fledged and independent novel about the third generation of the Wang family. . The novel "The Divided House" is the third and final book of a grandiose family saga about a clan of Chinese peasants. — Although "The Divided House" continues the story that began in the books "Earth" and "Sons", it is a complete and independent work that can be read without familiarization with the first two parts. — The work on the "Chinese" trilogy earned Pearl Buck the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature. — Pearl Buck described the life of Chinese peasants with such warmth, accuracy and authenticity that in China she is considered one of her own, a Chinese writer named Sai Zhenzhu.