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Monkey King
Wu Cheng’en
The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil Finds Work
James Baldwin


Monkey King: Journey to the West is at once a rollicking adventure, a comic satire of Chinese bureaucracy, and a spring of spiritual insight. With this new translation, discover the irrepressible rogue hero of one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature.

A major hardcover compendium of nonfiction by one of America’s most brilliant essayists, James Baldwin, timed to the celebration of his centenary.

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