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Narcopolis

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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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823.92 THA n

Publisher

USA : Penguin Books., 2012

Collation

288p; bw; pbk

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780143123033

Classification

823.92

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Subject(s)

Fiction
Bombay (India ) - Fiction
Sci-Fi - Fiction

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