Barry Kavanagh's The Tao of Odds and Ends

This novel takes three ancient Chinese Taoist stories from the Book of Zhuangzi (or Chuang Tzu) and re-tells them, setting them in the present-day West. They are all interconnected in an innovative way that is itself inspired by Zhuangzi, and framed by a fourth story based on concepts from the equally ancient Tao Te Ching.

The stories' styles vary from something like the stillness of Amos Oz to a kind of Saki-esque dinner party to near-fairytale to melancholy surrealism, and is an exploration of what Taoism is all about and how it might or might not apply to the modern world.

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