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MONKEY-MAN by USHA, KR (Paperback - 2010) ISBN: 9780143068563 Subject: FICTION Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS INDIA 3 January 2000. It is the start of the new millennium. On Ammanagudi Street in Bangalore, a strange creature is spotted. As the beast seizes the imagination of the city, the first people to sight it¡XShrinivas Moorty, a teacher in a local college, Pushpa Rani, who works in a call centre, Neela Mary Gopalrao, secretary to an influential man, and Sukhiya Ram, her office boy¡Xare invited to talk about it on Bali Brums¡¦s hugely popular radio show. What was it that they saw? A bat? A malevolent avatar? A sign of the displeasure of the gods? The grotesque mascot of a city that is growing too fast and crumbling too soon? Or merely a monkey that has lost its way? |
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