MONKEY KING

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A Chinese Lord of the Rings and one of the great fantasy novels of all time--a story that Neil Gaiman has said "is in the DNA of 1.5 billion people"--featuring the world's most popular superhero, a shape-shifting monkey whose time-traveling adventures, kung-fu prowess, and mischievous antics have amazed, amused, and entertained in countless TV, film, comic-book, and video-game adaptations, now in a thrilling new one-volume translationA Penguin Classics HardcoverOne of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature, Monkey King (or Journey to the West) was written anonymously in 1580 during the Ming dynasty and is most commonly attributed to Wu Cheng'en, the son of a silk-shop clerk from east China. It recounts a Tang-dynasty monk's quest for Buddhist scriptures in the seventh century AD, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu Monkey King called Sun Wukong, one of the most memorable reprobates of world literature, a rice-loving divine pig able to fly with its ears, and a depressive man-eating river-sand monster. While the novel was published in 1592 by an entrepreneurial press in Nanjing, east China, this translation - from the hundred-chapter version of the book, republished in 1954 by Zuojia chubanshe - aims to bring out the many voices of the novel. Comparable to The Canterbury Tales or Don Quixote, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a spring of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journey toward enlightenment by the power and virtue of cooperation.