{"product_id":"yin-a-love-story-9781943155125","title":"Yin: A Love Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eTraditional Chinese culture rests upon the shoulders of three great sages  Confucius  the Buddha  and Lao Tzu. YIN is the story of the latter  the most mysterious and least known of the heavenly trio  and his quest for a soul mate  a quest answered by a tortoise  a Galpagos giant to be precise  brought to him  as a tiny baby  from across the great Pacific. A work of magical realism in the vein of Gabriel Garcia Mrquez and David Mitchell  YIN chronicles the efforts of the great sage to create the woman of his dreams. It is a novel of idealism  frustration  persistence  unimaginable endurance  failure  tragedy  and triumph. Set alternately in current Chinas era of economic marvels and social change  and in the formative  ancient dynasty during which the seeds of todays great nation were sown  YIN entrances and enchants as a love story for the ages  yet also mines an ancient philosophy to offer readers both a different way of thinking and of looking at the world  and a recipe for social and environmental change. Questioning the speed-and-greed consumerism of the USA  and challenging China to come back to its roots  it will be the first literary novel to be simultaneously published in both countries on November 1  2015.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67932755198005,"sku":"ByrdShop_1943155127","price":346.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781943155125.jpg?v=1794229692","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/yin-a-love-story-9781943155125","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}