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Highlights
- Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Written in poetic and affecting prose, Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades.
- About the Author: Jeet Thayil is the author of four poetry collections, including These Errors Are Correct and English and is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.
- 304 Pages
- Fiction + Literature Genres, Urban
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About the Book
A tale of vice and passion set against a backdrop of late 1970's Bombay finds a New Yorker becoming entranced with the underworld culture of an opium den and brothel where he encounters a pipe-making eunuch, a violent businessman, and a Chinese refugee.Book Synopsis
Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeWritten in poetic and affecting prose, Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. A rich, hallucinatory dream that captures Bombay in all its compelling squalor, Narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. It is a book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love, and God and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with that of the subcontinent's familiar literary lights. Above all, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul.
Review Quotes
"A brilliant first novel . . . Nothing like this exists in Indian literature." -- The Sunday Guardian (London) "In ambition, Narcopolis is reminiscent of Roberto Bolano; but it is Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son--the best junkie book of the last quarter century--that is its closer kin. Thankfully, Thayil creates something original and vital from those blueprints. One yearns for the next hit." -- The Telegraph (U.K.) "A reformed addict, Mr. Thayil has had personal experience with the world he describes. But he is also a published poet, who wields his words with care. His efforts are there to be seen." -- The Economist "Thayil's precision and economy distill what could be a sprawling and uneven saga into an elegant tapestry of beautifully observed characters and their complex lives." -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
About the Author
Jeet Thayil is the author of four poetry collections, including These Errors Are Correct and English and is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. As a musician and songwriter, he is one-half of the contemporary music project Sridhar/Thayil. He lives in Delhi, India.Dimensions (Overall): 7.82 Inches (H) x 5.12 Inches (W) x .86 Inches (D)
Weight: .49 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 304
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Urban
Publisher: Penguin Books
Format: Paperback
Author: Jeet Thayil
Language: English
Street Date: September 26, 2012
TCIN: 92311489
UPC: 9780143123033
Item Number (DPCI): 247-08-7615
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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