{"product_id":"9780140441116-retail-monkey","title":"Monkey","description":"Arthur Waley's humorous and energetic translation is accompanied by an introduction discussing the story's background in history and legend, its elements of anti-bureaucratic satire and the allegorical nature of its characters\n\nMonkey depicts the adventures of Prince Tripitaka, a young Buddhist priest on a dangerous pilgrimage to India to retrieve sacred scriptures accompanied by his three unruly disciples- the greedy pig creature Pipsy, the river monster Sandy - and Monkey. Hatched from a stone egg and given the secrets of heaven and earth, the irrepressible trickster Monkey can ride on the clouds, become invisible and transform into other shapes - skills that prove very useful when the four travellers come up against the dragons, bandits, demons and evil wizards that threaten to prevent them in their quest. Wu Ch'ang-an wrote Monkey in the mid-sixteenth century, adding his own distinctive style to an ancient Chinese legend, and in so doing created a dazzling combination of nonsense with profundity, slapstick comedy with spiritual wisdom.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49001226207451,"sku":"9780140441116-RETAIL","price":21.24,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d3299cd1-bb74-4572-9240-d819a9b9e341_0d582713-f841-4d0e-a344-a65d01d8d471.jpg?v=1784744624","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780140441116-retail-monkey","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}