![]() ![]() "Thayil’s precision and economy distill what could be a sprawling and uneven saga into an elegant tapestry of beautifully observed characters and their complex lives." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) Product Details His efforts are there to be seen." - The Economist Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Narcopolis is a rich and hallucinatory novel set around a Bombay opium den, as the city transforms itself over three. ![]() But he is also a published poet, who wields his words with care. ![]() Thayil has had personal experience with the world he describes. One yearns for the next hit." - The Telegraph (U.K.) Thankfully, Thayil creates something original and vital from those blueprints. "In ambition, Narcopolis is reminiscent of Roberto Bolano but it is Denis Johnson’s Jesus’ Son-the best junkie book of the last quarter century-that is its closer kin. Nothing like this exists in Indian literature." - The Sunday Guardian (London) ![]()
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