"Just then, Panda wondered why. Then he conceived a fascination for spectacles, and hummed a little tune. He held his feet ... "
"Beautiful, surreal, timeless and otherworldly ... special and rare"
The Panda Chronicles is the first full-length work by prize-winning short fiction writer Paul Bowers.
With five star Amazon reviews for the first edition, the second has been re-edited and republished for autumn 2018.
The Panda Chronicles: a mythology
Follow the misadventures of the naive and hapless Panda in this ancient mythology.
The Panda Chronicles tells the story of our charming but bewildered hero's attempts to get a paw around the great truths of life and love, even as he sparks off chaos all around. Part low comedy, part post-modern fable, the story proceeds through a series of allegorical encounters with a colourful cast of minor characters, presented to us by an excitable contemporary narrator.
As Panda's slapstick disasters take a more tragic turn, so the text cunningly dismantles itself, and we are left pondering, with Panda and his beleaguered narrator, just what it has all meant. Throw in a lyrical prose style, a dose of romance, war, shipwrecks and the god of tangled coat-hangers, and you are ready to enter the unique world of Panda, walking into things, and bumping his snout.
Buy The Panda Chronicles for Kindle and other devices, or in hard copy, via Amazon or in hard copy alone on Lulu.
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