MONKEY MAN

Book ID/图书代码： 12100010B42486

English Summary/英文概要： A brush with a strange creature would change his life forever. 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 Shrinivas 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 are 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? Using evocative prose that reflects her profound understanding of human nature, Usha K.R. delves into the lives of her characters and their unexpectedly linked destinies in a city that has grown from a Pensioner’ s Paradiseto the frenetic hub of the country’ s IT industry.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 城市街道上出現一隻不明生物！
它是不祥的徵兆嗎？是城市污染產生的突變生物嗎？
一則城市怪談，牽引出人性的糾葛，和城市的繁華與衰敗！

千禧年初，在印度班加羅爾的街道上，有人目擊到一個奇怪的生物！這隻怪物一下子變成都市怪談的主角，引起全城的討論。目擊者有四人：大學教授、電話服務中心職員、當地權要的秘書和她的辦公室小弟。他們被邀請上當地的一個超人氣廣播節目，談話主題圍繞著那隻城市怪獸。它是一隻蝙蝠嗎？是惡意的化身嗎？是神祇發怒的訊息嗎？是像酷斯拉那樣，受到城市發展影響所產生的突變怪物嗎？還是那只是隻迷路的猴子而已？
Usha K.R.使用溫馨的散文筆法，透過她對角色的深刻剖析，將一個城市從養老聖地轉變為科技城的城市發展歷程融合在內。經濟高度發展，城市就絕對能邁向幸福光明的未來嗎？(Chris)

Awards/获奖情况：《人猴》(Monkey Man)入圍2011曼氏亞洲文學獎(Man Asian Literary Prize)初選，
與1994年諾貝爾文學獎得主大江健三郎(Kenzaburo Oe)並列

MONKEY MAN by Usha K.R. has been longlisted for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize, alongside Nobel Prize-winning Japanese suthor Kenzaburo Oe. Usha is one of India’s most gifted writers and has previously won the Vodafone Crossword Award 2007, as well as being shortlisted for Best Book in the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (South Asia and Europe) in 2009.

About the Author/作者介绍： Usha K.R. has been writing fiction for over two decades, beginning with short fiction. Her short story ‘Sepia Tones’ won the Katha Award for short fiction in 1995. Sojourn, her first novel, was published in 1998 and the second, The Chosen, in 2003. A Girl and a River is her third novel. Usha lives and works in Bangalore
Usha K.R.寫小說的資歷已有20年，被譽為「印度最有才華的作家」。她的第一部作品是短篇小說《Sepia Tones》，在1995年贏得Katha Award。之後她分別在1998年、2003年和2008年出版長篇小說《Sojourn》、《The Chosen》和《A Girl and a River》。她曾贏得2007年印度Vodafone Crossword獎，入圍2009年不列巔國協作家獎最佳圖書決選，《人猴》(Monkey Man)還入圍2011英仕曼亞洲文學獎(Man Asian Literary Prize)初選，和1994年諾貝爾文學獎得主大江健三郎(Kenzaburo Oe)並列。

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