The Kai Lung books are really short-story collections, whose disparate, rambling tales are knitted together by framing narratives featuring the eponymous travelling storyteller. The third in Bramahâs Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. âKai Lung Unrolls His Matâ, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and his despicable accomplice Ming-Shu. Kai Lungâs adventures are related with humor and irony, his shrewdness and wisdom conveyed in euphemisms, paradoxes and parables. Bramahâs droll writing style went a long way toward making the Kai Lung series so popular. The Kai Lung books are easily Bramahâs greatest achievement; theyâre as worthy of their somewhat neglected place in the pantheon of British humour as the delightful comic trivia of Wodehouse.