{"product_id":"9780553379082","title":"Bones of the Master: A Journey to Secret Mongolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1959 a young monk named Tsung Tsai (Ancestor Wisdom) escapes the Red Army troops that destroy his monastery, and flees alone three thousand miles across a China swept by chaos and famine. Knowing his fellow monks are dead, himself starving and hunted, he is sustained by his mission: to carry on the teachings of his Buddhist meditation master, who was too old to leave with his disciple.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearly forty years later Tsung Tsai — now an old master himself — persuades his American neighbor, maverick poet George Crane, to travel with him back to his birthplace at the edge of the Gobi Desert. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are unlikely companions. Crane seeks freedom, adventure, sensation. Tsung Tsai is determined to find his master's grave and plant the seeds of a spiritual renewal in China. As their search culminates in a torturous climb to a remote mountain cave, it becomes clear that this seemingly quixotic quest may cost both men's lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026624626928,"sku":"9780553379082","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780553379082_p0.jpg?v=1763781285","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780553379082","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}