Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

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 decades. In Old Bombay, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium.

Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India in 1959 and educated in Hong Kong, New York and Bombay. He is a performance poet, songwriter and guitarist as well as a writer, and has published four collections of poetry. He is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008). He currently lives in Bangalore.

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ISBN 13	9780571275786
ISBN 10	0571275788
Title	Narcopolis
Author	Jeet Thayil
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Faber & Faber
Year published	2013-02-07
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Short-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2012, Short-listed for Man Asian Literary Prize 2012
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