Timothy Mo – The Monkey King – First Edition 1978
£85.00
A first edition, first printing of ‘The Monkey King’ by Timothy Mo, published by Andre Deutsch, London in 1978. A fine copy with previous owner’s name and date in black ink to the title page. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with light bumping to extremities. Wrapper design by Corinne Pearlman.
The Monkey King by Timothy Mo is a darkly comic novel about Wallace Nolasco, a wealthy Chinese Filipino businessman whose power rests on corruption, violence and myth-making. Set in Southeast Asia, the book satirises postcolonial politics, capitalism and moral decay. Mo blends realism with allegory, portraying Wallace as a modern trickster figure whose ambition, cruelty and self-deception expose the grotesque absurdities of authoritarian power and inherited privilege.
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A first edition, first printing of ‘The Monkey King’ by Timothy Mo, published by Andre Deutsch, London in 1978. A fine copy with previous owner’s name and date in black ink to the title page. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with light bumping to extremities. Wrapper design by Corinne Pearlman.
The Monkey King by Timothy Mo is a darkly comic novel about Wallace Nolasco, a wealthy Chinese Filipino businessman whose power rests on corruption, violence and myth-making. Set in Southeast Asia, the book satirises postcolonial politics, capitalism and moral decay. Mo blends realism with allegory, portraying Wallace as a modern trickster figure whose ambition, cruelty and self-deception expose the grotesque absurdities of authoritarian power and inherited privilege.
