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Narcopolis Jeet Thayil
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Dom records his recollections and dreams as he drifts on a cloud of opium each night, back in the city of Bombay (he eschews the modern name Mumbai) which is home but increasingly unfamiliar to him. 2012 Man Booker Prize nominee Jeet Thayil talks to EXEC about his book, Narcopolis. 'Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis was always going to draw comparisons with Salman Rushdie's Midnights Children. Thayil-Narcopolis.jpg Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. A former drug addict from India turns his experiences with drugs into a poignant novel about a neighborhood that bonds via a drug parlor. Posted on June 7, 2013 by admin. Download Narcopolis: A Novel 'Narcopolis': Inside India's Dark Underbelly : NPR Purchase Featured Books. Reason for Reading: In preparation of the Booker Prize announcement on Tuesday. Why Bombay, and could you let us in on your relationship with the city? Written by Jeet Thayil, Narrated by Dean Robertson. Your novel Narcopolis is set in Bombay. €�……completely fascinating – a cast of pimps, poets, pushers, eunuchs and gangsters…..” This is a dream like novel set in Old Bombay and spanning three decades. Jeet Thayil "Narcopolis" (Faber & Faber) Narcopolis: A Novel by Jeet Thayil I took me awhile to complete this novel. Narcopolis: A Novel book download. I'm not sure that I'm going to manage the whole Booker longlist like I did with the Orange longlist, but I did at least want to read a few of the chosen titles to get a flavour of this year's entries. Jeet Thayil-Narcopolis Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis is unlike anything I've ever read, an intoxicating trip into the opium dens of Old Bombay in the 1970s. These are the existential questions that Indian writer Jeet Thayil explores in his debut novel, Narcopolis.