Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

Narcopolis



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Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Format: pdf
Page: 304
ISBN: 9781594203305


This was one of my two choices to win this year's Man Booker Prize. Naturally, it didn't win, but it was an enjoyable read nonetheless. Rashid's family lives above his den. The main characters are addicts whose days revolve around multiple visits with pipes. ISBN: 9781594203305 | 304 pages | 8 Mb. Narcopolis Jeet Thayil Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated. Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (2012, 307 pages) Jeet Thayil's (Kerala, India, 1959) debut novel, Narcopolis, is the only work by an author from India long listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. To be frank, Narcopolis is a complicated and difficult to read novel. Narcopolis tells the story, over the course of twenty plus years, of Rashid, Dimple, Rumi and Mr. The narrator of Narcopolis is a dream seeker and a journalist, one who beautifies the sleazy opium dens and whorehouses, turning it into, more or less, his Golden Age. I should start by giving full credit to Mark from Eleutherophobia for pointing me in the direction of Narcopolis. 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.