Grandfather's Pearl

This wonderful book is set in a time when emperors ruled China. The main character of the story, the old grandfather, is a great man. When he became a man, he was a soldier and a war hero and saw forth the building of The Great Wall of China. He has a very large family, but a small thing gets in the way-the pearl-which threatens to separate the family. Even though the old grandfather does not choose riches over love and his family, a fight breaks out over the pearl, but his family overcomes their domestic battles as they forgive one another.