Sixty-Four Chance Pieces

Sixty-Four Chance Pieces A Book of Changes

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Publisher's Synopsis

The Chinese I Ching, or Book of Changes, is one of the oldest and strangest of all books, a masterpiece of world literature, a divination manual, and a magnet for the deranged and the obsessive. In Sixty-Four Chance Pieces, novelist and philosopher Will Buckingham puts the I Ching to work, using it to weave together 64 stories of chance and change, each flowing from one of the I Ching's 64 hexagrams. Moving between myth, fable, and travel writing, the collection offers an attempt to make sense of the maddening, changeable book that is the I Ching, with tales of inventors and fox-spirits, ancient poets and nonexistent rulers, kleptomaniac pensioners and infernal bureaucrats. Like the I Ching itself, this new Book of Changes is a puzzle, a conundrum, and a journey of many transformations, where nothing is quite what it seems.

Book information

ISBN: 9789888273027
Publisher: Earnshaw Books
Imprint: Earnshaw Books
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 260
Weight: 444g
Height: 146mm
Width: 209mm
Spine width: 30mm