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Narcopolis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143123033)
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xShortlisted 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.
Author: Jeet Thayil
ISBN-10: 0143123033
ISBN-13: 9780143123033
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.12w x 0.86d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 47
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.
Author: Jeet Thayil
ISBN-10: 0143123033
ISBN-13: 9780143123033
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 09/26/2012
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.12w x 0.86d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 47
By Jeet Thayil
xJeet 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.
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