The Monkey and the Monk : An Abridgment of The Journey to the West Stuart Turton An extraordinarily powerful follow-up to

An extraordinarily powerful follow-up to her bestselling The Good Women of China - heartbreaking

True stories to make your toes curl

Could her abductor truly be a beloved Baltimore cop

It truly was as fun to make the movie as it is to watch it

But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast

The Monkey and the Monk : An Abridgment of The Journey to the West Stuart Turton An extraordinarily powerful follow-up toAnthony C. Yus celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literatures most beloved classics for English speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago. Yus abridgment of his four volume translation, The Monkey and the Monk , finally distills the epic novels most exciting and meaningful episodes without taking anything away from their true spirit. These fantastic episodes recount the adventures of