Leitura do momento

"At first, opening his eyes in the blackness of the curtains about his bed, he could not think why the dawn seemed different from any other."

"Wang Lung and his family had come from a country where if men starve it is because there is no food, since the land cannot bear under a relentless heaven. Silver in the hand was worth little because it could buy nothing where nothing was."

"Once more the soldiers approached, searching the streets for able-bodied men. Wang Lung crouched in hiding as a new horror seized him - that he might be dragged to the battlefields. Then his family would certainly starve, and he himself might be killed and never again see the land he loved."