Coinman

A clerk called Coinman can't stop jingling the coins in his pocket. It's a simple addiction, but it's one that comes to rule his life. His real name is Kesar, but his lifelong habit earned him his nickname, and because he's a bit of a shrinking violet, he accepted it.
Mishra's debut comic novel is an absurdist tale of office and personal politics set in a small town in northern India. He takes the central motif of coin jingling to an extreme, but it's an effective stand-in for any personal problem that causes social friction. Coinman is a modern-day parable laced with pithy wisdom and psychological insight into human nature--a clever parody of the dynamics of office politics and groupthink. An overflowing basin of linguistic humor, this satirical story beautifully depicts how even mature, sensible adults can callously inflict emotional damage upon the most vulnerable.