A Chinese \;Lord of the Rings \;an d one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--now in a thrilling new one-volume tran slation
\nA Penguin Classics Hardcover
\nA shape-shifting tric kster on a kung-fu quest for eternal life\, Sun Wukong\, or Monkey King\, is one of the most memorable superheroes in world literature\, known to le gions of fans of the most popular anime of all time\, \;Dragon Ball\, and the world's largest e-sport\, the video game \;League of Legends.& nbsp\;High-spirited and omni-talented\, he amasses dazzling weapons and sk ills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped staff that can grow as t all 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 tra nsform himself into whomever or whatever he chooses and turn each of his b ody'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 I mmortal Peaches and gorges himself on the elixirs of the gods\, the Buddha pins him beneath a mountain\, freeing him only five hundred years later f or a chance to redeem himself: He is to protect the pious monk Tripitaka o n his fourteen-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire.
\nJoined by tw o other fallen immortals--Pigsy\, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its e ars\, and Sandy\, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster--Monkey King undergoes eighty-one trials\, doing battle with Red Boy\, Princess Jade-Fa ce\, the Monstress Dowager\, and all manner of dragons\, ogres\, wizards\, and \;femmes fatales\, \;navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave \, the River of Flowing Sand\, the Water-Crystal Palace\, and Casserole Mo untain\, and being serially captured\, lacquered\, sauté\;ed\, steam ed\, and liquefied\, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam.
\nMonkey King: Jour ney to the West \;is at once a rollicking adventure\, a comic satire o f Chinese bureaucracy\, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new t ranslation\, the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classic al Novels of Chinese literature has the potential to vault\, with his sign ature cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun\, into the hearts of mil lions of Americans.
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