The Refugees: Annotated

By Pearl S. Buck

The story The Refugees deals with the sufferings of the people who had to seek shelter during the 1931 floods in the yangtse river.The chinese farmers who were well-to-do became homeless and landless overnight owing to floods.Fate turned very cruel to them and made them starve.Everyday long lines of ragged men and women were making their way towards the city.They were sheltered in camps outside the city wall.They were fed and clothed somehow by the city people.Later the local people found it troublesome to have to feed the poor refugees.The refugees became rickshaw pullers and beggars.They were no common men and women.But their fate turned them into refugees.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1983003913
• ISBN13: 9781983003912
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 25 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.1" x 8.5"