Narcopolis
by Thayil, Jeet
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571275761
- ISBN 13
- 9780571275762
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Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Powell's Bookstores Chicago (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Z0245953
- Title
- Narcopolis
- Author
- Thayil, Jeet
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0571275761
- ISBN 13
- 9780571275762
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom.
- This edition first published
- 2012
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