About the book
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.
Editions of Narcopolis
- Hardcover
- ISBN 9781594203305
- Paperback
- ISBN 9780143123033
- EBook
- ISBN 9781101561720
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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.
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What is Narcopolis about?
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.
What core themes, tropes, or subjects are explored in Narcopolis?
Fiction > Fiction: literary and general non-genre > Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general > Street fiction / urban fiction
Where can I read a sample of Narcopolis?
You can read an official preview of the few pages here https://www.book2look.com/book/9781594203305
Who is/are the Author/s of the book Narcopolis?
Jeet Thayil
What are the ISBN numbers for the physical and digital editions?
Narcopolis is available as hardcover(ISBN 9781594203305) and paperback(ISBN 9780143123033) and ebook(ISBN 9781101561720)
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