OK--let's go back and read The Good Earth--which I read in Burma when Iwas 10-12 years old--and The Thorn Birds which I read in America in the 1980s,while working on an Ivy LeaguePh.D.--

https://www.amazon.com/Good-Earth-Oprahs-Book-Club/dp/0743272935/ref=asc_df_0743272935/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=693409812949&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=2663830802451019462&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-435415167115&psc=1&mcid=e3d80a4040723842bd290f439a6cb892&gad_source=1