~ Trade Paperback
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. However, 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 . . .
One of the world's greatest fantasy novels and a rollicking classic of Chinese literature, Monkey King is comparable to Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales or Cervantes' Don Quixote in that is at once a gripping adventure, a comic satire, and a spring of spiritual insight.
“The best English edition of the classic Chinese fantasy novel. If you wish to understand why Monkey King has been a fixture in Chinese popular culture for no fewer than five centuries, then look no further.” -- Los Angeles Review of Books