{"product_id":"the-useless-tree-the-complete-zhuangzi-in-three-voices-9798254520283","title":"The Useless Tree: The Complete Zhuangzi in Three Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Steve Brandl\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Taoist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Useless Tree\u003c\/i\u003e is Steve Brandl's complete rendering of the \u003ci\u003eZhuangzi\u003c\/i\u003e in three distinct voices: clear prose, reflective investigation, and lyrical verse. Moving through all thirty-three chapters, this book opens one of the great classics of Daoist thought to the modern reader without flattening its strangeness, humor, or depth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere Laozi is spare and still, Zhuangzi is playful, unpredictable, and alive with story. Butterflies dream, butchers reveal the Way, useless trees outlive the useful, and certainty begins to loosen its grip. Brandl brings these ancient texts into conversation with contemporary questions of mind, self, perception, and the stories human beings live inside.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a scholarly translation in the narrow sense, but a literary and philosophical encounter: accessible, contemplative, and unafraid of paradox. For readers of Daoism, seekers of wisdom, and anyone drawn to the meeting place of ancient insight and modern consciousness, \u003ci\u003eThe Useless Tree\u003c\/i\u003e offers a living Zhuangzi for our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775115509911,"sku":"9798254520283","price":1693.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798254520283.webp?v=1777988554","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-useless-tree-the-complete-zhuangzi-in-three-voices-9798254520283","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}