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A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the alltime great fantasy novelswhich Neil Gaiman has said 'is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people'now in a thrilling new onevolume translationA Penguin Classics HardcoverA shapeshifting trickster on a kungfu quest for eternal life, Sun Wukong, or Monkey King, is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature, known to legions of fans of the most popular anime of all time, Dragon Ball, and the world's largest esport, the video game League of Legends. Highspirited and omnitalented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a goldhooped staff that can grow as tall as the sky and shrink to the size of a needle; the ability to travel 108,000 miles in a single somersault. A master of subterfuge, he can transform himself into whomever or 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 and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain, freeing him only five hundred years later for a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka on his fourteenyear journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire.Joined by two other fallen immortalsPigsy, a riceloving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive maneating riversand monsterMonkey King undergoes eightyone trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess JadeFace, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and femmes fatales, navigating the perils of FireCloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the WaterCrystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sauted, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam.Monkey King: Journey to the West is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault, with his signature cloudsomersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans.
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