The phrase "peasant life" refers to the simple and often difficult way of living that people in rural areas, typically poor farmers or laborers, experience. It involves hard work, farming, and a lack of luxury or modern amenities. Full definition
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (born June 26, 1892 in Hillsboro, West Virginia) was an important and much lauded American writer, famous for her depictions of China and Chinese culture, which earned her a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for the novel The Good Earth and the first Nobel Prize awarded to an American woman for Literature in 1938 «for her rich and truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China and for her biographical masterpieces». (bookbrowse.com)
He is best known for depicting horses, of peasant life in Wallachia and Moldavia, and of battle incidents. (widewalls.ch)
Outside Italy, he became a forgotten man until he bounced back in 1978 with his masterpiece The Tree of Wooden Clogs, a three - hour survey of peasant life at the turn of the century, which won Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. (independent.ie)