Social literature

Sabrana dela 13: Ponosito srce

One of Pearl S. Buck's less frequently mentioned but very powerful novels (1938), which is quite different from her Chinese sagas. It is the story of a gifted, proud woman who struggles to remain both an artist and a woman, in a world that finds it diffic

Sabrana dela 15: Sinovi

After their father's death, the three sons of peasant Wang Lung leave the land he loved; war, greed, and revolution tear the family apart and destroy the inheritance.

Sabrana dela 16: Skriveni cvet

The novel is an intimate, emotional story of forbidden love in post-war Japan. One of Buck's most personal works on the subject of interracial relationships. Less epic, more psychological and melancholic than her Chinese novels.

Sabrana dela 2: Dobra zemlja

Pearl S. Buck depicts the life of Chinese peasant Wang Lung, his rise from poverty to wealth, and the disintegration of family ties. The novel explores the relationship between man and land, tradition, social change, and moral challenges.

Sabrana dela 3: Drugi bogovi

The novel Other Gods is a satirical and psychological story about the American cult of celebrity, idolatry, and the need of the masses to create "gods" out of ordinary people.

Sabrana dela 6: Glasovi u kući

In the patrician Asher family, longtime servants and their daughter Jessica live in the shadow of their master; when the girl gets out of control, the stability of the house collapses.

Sabrana dela 8: Jedan brak

Sabrana dela 9: Mandala

Mandala is one of Pearl S. Buck's most mature and spiritual novels, a rare work set in India. The title Mandala (symbol of wholeness) perfectly captures the core of the story: a search for meaning, wholeness, and the reconciliation of opposites.

Sabrna dela 18: Tvorac grada

The Maker of the City (1945) was the first novel published by Pearl S. Buck under the pseudonym John Sedges, to try her hand at a story about the American West without the expectations attached to her Chinese works.

Sadioci luka

"Sadioci luka" is a novel by Slovenian writer Anton Ingolič, published in 1974. The work thematizes agrarian reform and collectivization in rural areas, showing the challenges faced by peasants during this process.