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Product information "Monkey King"

One of the world's greatest fantasy novels, and a timeless classic of Chinese literature

One of China's Four Great Classical Novels, Monkey King was written anonymously 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, accompanied by an omni-talented kung-fu Monkey King called Sun Wukong; a rice-loving divine pig; and a depressive man-eating river-sand monster.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 journeys towards enlightenment.

Subtitle
Journey to the West

H | W | D | g
195 mm | 128 mm | 18 mm | 262 gr

Publication year
2025

Age rating
0

Edition
Taschenbuch

Publisher
Penguin UK

ISBN-10
0143138936

Author
Wu Cheng'en

Other contributors
Lovell, Julia | Lovell, Julia

Language
Englisch

Page Count
384

Topics
Belletristik in Übersetzung, China, Klassische Belletristik: allgemein und literarisch, Antike, klassische und mittelalterliche Texte, Klassische Lyrik und Dichtung vor dem 20. Jahrhundert, Historische Fantasy

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