Narcopolis

by Jeet Thayil

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143123033
• ISBN13: 9780143123033
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher