Monkey-Man

Usha KR 

Penguin Books India

272 pages, Rs 299

At the start of the new millennium a strange creature is spotted on Bangalore’s Ammansagudi Street. A college teacher, a call centre employee, a secretary and an office boy are invited on Bali Brums’s hugely popular radio show to describe what they saw. Using the urban legend of a monkey man to portray the changes in contemporary Bangalore, this is a reflective and gently funny novel from the Crossword Award-winning author of A Girl and a River.