MONKEY! My new novel on Aleph Book Company, now available: https://amzn.in/d/01dMjbFy
In a picturesque resort town in the Himalayan foothills, on a thunderous monsoon day, Amit Nishani meets a Monkey who stares into his soul. I can see you, it says, in words outside of language.
Widowed and displaced, Amit is a hotel manager in an alien land, surrounded by deodars, snowy peaks, relentless rain, and menacing simians. He confronts loss, regrets, and mortality. And Monkey.
In a parallel world, an unnamed protagonist rides a train with no plan to deboard. She sits on the middle berth with her deceased father’s jhola, frantically filling in the pages of her unfinished manuscript and entertaining the company of a curious cast of co-passengers.
“Brutally funny and surprisingly tender, Karan Madhok’s surrealistic novel ‘Monkey!’ is a meditation on journeys and destinations, nature and civilization, what it means to be recognized, and what it means to be free.”
Cover: Antra Kay.