One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic
of Chinese literature, in a sparkling new translation and published
in a Clothbound Classics edition. A shape-shifting trickster on a
kung-fu quest for eternal life, Monkey King is one of the most
memorable superheroes in world literature. High-spirited and
omni-talented, he can transform himself into whatever he chooses
and turn each of his body's 84,000 hairs into an army of clones.
But his penchant for mischief repeatedly gets him into trouble, and
when he raids Heaven's Orchard of Immortal Peaches, the Buddha pins
him beneath a mountain. Five hundred years later, Monkey King is
finally given a chance to redeem himself: he must protect the pious
monk Tripitaka on his journey in search of precious Buddhist sutras
that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire. Joined by two
other fallen immortals - Pigsy, a rice-loving flying pig, and
Sandy, a depressive river-sand monster - Monkey King does battle
with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all
manner of dragons, ogres, wizards and femmes fatales; navigates the
perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand and the
Water-Crystal Palace; and is serially captured, lacquered, sauteed,
steamed and liquefied - but always hatches an ingenious plan to get
himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam. Comparable
to The Canterbury Tales or Don Quixote, Monkey King is at once a
gripping adventure, a comic satire and a spring of spiritual
insight. With this new translation by the award-winning Julia
Lovell, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great
Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault,
with his signature cloud-somersault, into the hearts of a whole new
generation of readers.
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