Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil$18.70
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 09/26/2012
ISBN: 9780143123033
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.12w x 0.86d
Review Citations: 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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
Published: 09/26/2012
ISBN: 9780143123033
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 7.82h x 5.12w x 0.86d
Review Citations: Library Journal 04/01/2013 pg. 47