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Original Title:	Narcopolis
ISBN:	0571275761 (ISBN13: 9780571275762)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.faber.co.uk/work/narcopolis/9780571275762/
Literary Awards:	Booker Prize Nominee (2012), Man Asian Literary Prize Nominee (2012), The Hindu Literary Prize Nominee (2012), DSC Prize for South Asian Literature (2013)

Narcopolis

Jeet Thayil

Paperback | Pages: 292 pages

Rating: 3.36 | 7593 Users | 764 Reviews

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Title	:	Narcopolis
Author	:	Jeet Thayil
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	February 2nd 2012 by Faber & Faber (first published January 31st 2012)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. India

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Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick and potent. A beautiful young woman leans to hold a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her dark eyes. Around her, men sprawl and mutter in the gloom, each one drifting with his own tide. Here, people say that you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. Outside, stray dogs lope in packs. Street vendors hustle. Hookers call for custom through the bars of their cages as their pimps slouch in doorways in the half-light. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. There are too many of them to count in this broken city. Narcopolis is a rich, chaotic, hallucinatory dream of a novel that captures the Bombay of the 1970s in all its compelling squalor. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.

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Now where do I even start?There's always a problem with these critically acclaimed, highly praised books. You expect something from them, something larger than life, something special, and most of the time you've raised the bar in your head so high that the book can never reach that elevation.This one will.Jeet Thayil's 'hallucinatory dream of a novel' as described in one of the blurbs, is exactly that. It is a book that could not have been written; it could only have been lived. It's a

Truth is Heroin is Beauty.-Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil.At first glance, Narcopolis is a novel about drugs. At second glance, it is a novel about lust. At third, it is a novel about Bombay. And, when the reader finishes the last breathtaking page of Jeet Thayils debut Man Booker long-lister, Narcopolis will again have transformed into being about something else entirely.So goes the magic of a great book.In an interview with NPR, Thayil speaks with a poets voice: confidant and yet careful, giving

Three and a half stars. Jeet Thayil's 'Narcopolis' contains some of the most vividly realized characters I've ever come across in a book. Deeply felt and complex, they each weave in and out of reality and consciousness, bound by an endless stream of narcotics and the den that serves to encapsulate the crushed ambitions of a city full of dreamers. Thayil's prose is both poetic and raw, his wordplay masterful and yet his subject matter abhorrent. It's a vivid juxtaposition that mirrors the drug

Narcopolis isn't so much a story as a non-linear network of little stories and vignettes: a sort of tapestry of pieces of fiction and character studies. The characters include an opium/heroin addict who initially acts as narrator (although the narrative soon wanders away from him and takes on a life of its own), several opium den 'entrepreneurs', a eunuch prostitute and a degenerate poet-slash-artist. Set in Bombay, and more specificially on Shuklaji Street where Rashid's opium house is located,

Forgetfulness was a gift, a talent to be nurtured. In the war of remembering and forgetting, what side do we choose? Or do we choose at all? Isnt life that, which happens when we are busy planning it? In the seductively opiated heavens of narrow-alleyed Bombay, a membrane-like life of a eunuch is stretched between her dreams and reality. The prima donna of a famed whore house, Dimple regales her customers with her melancholic eyes and business-like primness and efficiency. Wallowing silently in

20. Pearl Ruled (p129)Rating: 3* of fiveThe Publisher Says: Jeet Thayils luminous debut novel completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. This 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 the subcontinents familiar literary lights. Above all, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation

As Mark Staniforth, fellow Shadow Juror for the Man Asian Literary Prize, wittily remarked in his review, its a fair guess that Jeet Thayils Narcopolis is unlikely to nudge its way onto Oprahs summer reading list any time soon. This tale from the underbelly of 1970s Bombay is about as squalid as it can get. But longlisted it for the 2012 Booker, and now shortlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize it is strangely compelling, luring the reader in, mimicking the way opium seduces the books