The Rock Garden by Nikos Kazantzakis..A tale of a European traveler to China who falls in love with a Chinese woman and becomes caught up in the dangers of revolutionary activity and brutal war.

Nikos Kazantzakis was a prolific Greek writer, whose works include essays, novels, poems, tragedies, travel books, and translations of such classics as Dante's The Divine Comedy and J.W. von Goethe's Faust.