Narcopolis (Paperback)

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About the Book :

 SHORTLIST  2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION  

A rich and hallucinatory novel, set around a Bombay opium den, that follows a fascinating cast of flawed characters as the city transforms itself over three decades.

Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my...

Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.

About the Author :
 
Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India in 1959 and educated in Hong Kong, New York and Mumbai. He is a performance poet, songwriter and guitarist as well as a writer, and has published four collections of poetry. He is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008). He currently lives in Bangalore.

Book Details

Title:	Narcopolis
Publisher:	FABER & FABER
Author:	Jeet Thayil
Edition:	Paperback
Language:	English
ISBN:	0571283071
EAN:	9780571283071
No. of Pages:	304

Deliverable Countries: This product ships to India, Sri Lanka.

Customer Reviews : Narcopolis

•   By Avinash Verma 04 Mar 2013
  Wonderful service and A Great Book !!

  I ordered this book on 28th Feb and got it delievered today! Infibeam, Great service. Cant wait to read the book now ! The book is a great read, a lovely, gritty tale of a city that is a character in itself in this book. One of the best books that I have read lately. Highly recommended.

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