The Man-eater of Malgudi - Penguin Modern Classics

Nataraj earns his living as a printer in the little world of Malgudi, an imaginary town in South India. He and his close friends, a poet and a journalist, find their congenial days disturbed when Vasu, a taxidermist, moves in with his stuffed hyenas and pythons, and brings his dancing-women up the printer's private stairs.