{"product_id":"passion-of-clouds-and-rain-9781664190733","title":"Passion of Clouds and Rain","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt is a rare book about a Chinese woman's metamorphosis through cultural conflicts in love adventures. It contains five chapters. Chapter One, \"e;Searching for the Music of the Soul\"e;, captures the amorous encounter of two professors on a California campus. It is deeply psychological and thrilling in the vortex of self-contradictions of the protagonist concerning a woman's quest for friendship, love, and self-identity. Chapter Two, \"e;On the Wings,\"e; registers the narrator's first quixotic but promising adventures in America. Chapter Three, \"e;An Ugly Duckling's Swan Song\"e;, reveals her culture shocks, agonies and setbacks on American campuses as a graduate student and her rebellious childhood in China with her father as a figure of communist authority and traditional patriarchy. Chapter Four, \"e;Sex =\/=Love?\"e;, shows how the protagonist Yun, a female Don Juan, embarks on the road to spiritual liberation through the separation of sex from love. In the final chapter, \"e;A Separate Utopia\"e;, Yun has gone through purgation in the hell of East-West value conflicts. Does she find a utopia of her own?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53532247359767,"sku":null,"price":538.56,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9781664190733.jpg?v=1781248213","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/te\/products\/passion-of-clouds-and-rain-9781664190733","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}