{"product_id":"monkey-king-journey-to-the-west-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-paperback","title":"Monkey King: Journey to the West (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWu Cheng'en\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJulia Lovell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJulia Lovell\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Soon to be a Netflix animated movie featuring \u003cb\u003eStephanie Hsu, Bowen Yang, and BD Wong among the \u003c\/b\u003eall-Asian voice cast* \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBefore there was \u003ci\u003eThe Lord of the Rings, \u003c\/i\u003ethere was China's \u003ci\u003eMonkey King, \u003c\/i\u003e one of the all-time great fantasy novels--which Neil Gaiman has said \"is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people\"--now published in a thrilling new one-volume translation with an illustrated foreword by the author of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling graphic novel that is the basis for the Disney+ series \u003ci\u003eAmerican Born Chinese\u003c\/i\u003e, starring Michelle Yeoh, Ke Huy Quan, and Stephanie Hsu, as well as Daniel Wu as the Monkey King \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition, with flaps and deckle-edged paper \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA shape-shifting trickster 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 legions of fans of the most popular anime of all time, \u003ci\u003eDragon Ball\u003c\/i\u003e, and the world's largest e-sport, the video game \u003ci\u003eLeague of Legends\u003c\/i\u003e. High-spirited and omni-talented, he amasses dazzling weapons and skills on his journey to immortality: a gold-hooped 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 fourteen-year journey to India in search of precious Buddhist sutras that will bring enlightenment to the Chinese empire. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJoined by two other fallen immortals--Pigsy, a rice-loving pig able to fly with its ears, and Sandy, a depressive man-eating river-sand monster--Monkey King undergoes eighty-one trials, doing battle with Red Boy, Princess Jade-Face, the Monstress Dowager, and all manner of dragons, ogres, wizards, and \u003ci\u003efemmes fatales, \u003c\/i\u003e navigating the perils of Fire-Cloud Cave, the River of Flowing Sand, the Water-Crystal Palace, and Casserole Mountain, and being serially captured, lacquered, sautéed, steamed, and liquefied, but always hatching an ingenious plan to get himself and his fellow pilgrims out of their latest jam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonkey King: Journey to the West\u003c\/i\u003e 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 cloud-somersault and unerring sense for fun, into the hearts of millions of Americans.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWu Cheng'en \u003c\/b\u003e(c. 1505-1580) was a Ming Dynasty poet about whom little is known, although he is believed to be the author of \u003ci\u003eJourney to the West, \u003c\/i\u003e which he published anonymously. He lived much of his life as a hermit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulia Lovell\u003c\/b\u003e (editor\/translator\/introducer) is the translator of \u003ci\u003eThe Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun\u003c\/i\u003e and the author of \u003ci\u003eMaoism\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Opium War\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a professor of modern China at Birkbeck College, University of London, and writes about China for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGene Luen Yang\u003c\/b\u003e (foreword) is a MacArthur \"genius,\" the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, and the author of the half-million-copy \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling graphic novel and National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eAmerican Born Chinese\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.07 x 9.04 x 5.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52720050143565,"sku":"9780143136309","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/NXBGaWhDZDQ2N1JCZENtTTZzNHV4QT09.webp?v=1762458704","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/monkey-king-journey-to-the-west-penguin-classics-deluxe-edition-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}