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5.0 out of 5 stars A Chinese Woman's Metamorphosis Through Cultural Conflict, July 11, 2006
Amazon Review By A. Max
Recently recommended by a friend, I obtained a copy of Edna Wu's novel, Clouds & Rain: A China-to-America Memoir. I think my friend is right when she told me that this novel is a masterpiece on its own and one should grab a copy before this out-of-print, rare book disappears from the public shelf. It will be invaluable someday.
Jonathan Spence, Sterling Professor of Yale University, commends the book, stating that "[b]y focusing on the narrator's self-absorbed quest for erotic and intellectual fulfillment, Edna Wu's "memoir" offers a new slant to the currently urgent question of how the latest generation of Chinese immigrants can find home in America. One can read this breathless work as a modern-day update of Ding Ling's celebrated Dairy of Miss Sophie."Out of infancy, either Yun or China can no longer go back to her past. For Yun, it should really does not matter now whether she carries on her quixotic adventures in China or America.
Edna Wu's book contains a mixed genre of prose and poetry, journalist entries and flashes of memories. But her narrative flows naturally like a mountain stream. One follows it through its serene meandering in the woods, its leaps over breathtaking cliffs, and its sudden plunges in dark ravines. The book contains more than a hundred poems. Some of them are simple and inspirational. But most of them are quite readable poems. Thus, it is not surprising that Michelle Yeh, a professor of Chinese poetry and lyrics from University of California-Davis, exclaims: "In both from and content, what an unusual combination of prose and poetry, Eros and logos, America and China, Edna has given us!"