Narcopolis Paperback - 2012
by Jeet Thayil
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.
Summary
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. 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.
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- Title Narcopolis
- Author Jeet Thayil
- Binding Paperback
- Edition F First Edition
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 2012-09-26
- ISBN 9780143123033 / 0143123033
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 5.12 x 0.86 in (19.86 x 13.00 x 2.18 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Demographic Orientation: Urban
- Library of Congress subjects Bombay (India)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011040210
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- Library Journal, 04/01/2013, Page 47
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