![]() ![]() Narcopolis opens in Bombay in the late 1970s, as its narrator first arrives from New York to find himself entranced with the city's underworld, in particular an opium den and attached brothel. Written in Thayil's poetic and affecting prose, Narcopolis charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis. Above all, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with the subcontinent's familiar literary lights. ![]() This 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. ![]() Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. ![]()
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