“An anarchic romp through a post-apocalyptic, post-human Singapore, this is Planet of the Apes meets The Walking Dead meets The Jungle Book, featuring the nuttiest of characters on jaw-droppingly bloody escapades. A truly one-of-a-kind work of speculative fiction.”
—Ng Yi-Sheng, multi-award-winning author of Lion City
“This apocalyptic novel is about the unnervingly near future. What it tells is the riveting friendship between a talking langur and a human clown at the centre of a great revolution in Singapore and, for that matter, Nature. Jon Gresham’s chaotic Darwinian satire is funny and tragic and inserts a vast cast of attractive characters into memorable locales. An utter page-turner, Gus is the product of a magnificently troubling imagination that will scare its readers the next time they attempt a hiking trail.”
—Gwee Li Sui, poet, graphic artist and literary critic
“A traumatised monkey launches into a quest for home with the help of bewildered humans, in this narrative that never lets up from the very first page. Breathless, unrelenting, but also hilarious and unexpectedly poignant, here is a surreal and wildly entertaining morality tale about what happens when the natural world fulfils its vengeance on modern life as we know it.”
—Cyril Wong, award-winning poet and author of This Side of Heaven
“Gresham has written a thought-provoking and entertaining work that hurtles from escapade to escapade with humour and compassion. Activities like eating meat, visiting the zoo and reading news reports about the latest discoveries in the labs at Biopolis will probably leave one with some degree of disquiet after reading this book.”
—Yeo Wei Wei, author of These Foolish Things
“A dive into a world at once familiar and unfamiliar. Singapore in the not-too-distant-future, where primates have taken over, leaders have fled, and those left behind are forced to navigate a chaotic anarchic world that has stopped listening to nature. Through the eyes of the country’s last Raffles’ banded langur, we see these characters grappling with love, loss and the fine line between ‘us’ and ‘them’. An engaging read that stretches the imagination while it interrogates where we stand when faced with the fearful unknown.”
—Pamela Ho, former journalist and co-author of Adventures of 2 Girls
“An ecological dystopian romp, Gus is a warning about the delicate nature of the relationship between man and animal, and how fine the line of distinction can be as well. Gresham has written a zeitgeisty, absurdist tale that will entertain and make you think.”
—Lee Jing-Jing, author of How We Disappeared