Ebook {Epub PDF} Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayil. Tweets by jeetthayil. His first novel, Narcopolis (Faber, ) is set mostly in Bombay in the 70s and 80s, and sets out to tell the city's secret history, when opium gave way to new cheap heroin. Thayil has said he wrote the novel, "to create a kind of memorial, to inscribe certain names in stone. Nacropolis by Jeet Thayil is an opiate, a page-turner, a hookah-smoke-filled exploration of Bombay through adventures in grotesque and conversations of the underbelly. The metropolis is presented as the beloved city of drug- and dream- addicts/5(). Jeet Thayil: Book Format: ebook: Original Title: Narcopolis: Number Of Pages: pages: First Published in: Latest Edition: Language: English: Awards: Booker Prize Nominee (), Man Asian Literary Prize Nominee (), The Hindu Literary Prize Nominee (), DSC Prize for South Asian Literature () Generes.

Narcopolis is the journey of Bombay from s to s. Justifying the title, this voyage is detailed in terms of the addictions - first opium, then garad heroin and then cocaine; chandukhanas like Rashid's then, and now the bars and nightclubs. The habits have changed, the addictions have changed, even the name has changed, but Bombay, at. Narcopolis, by Jeet Thayil. As Mark Staniforth, fellow Shadow Juror for the Man Asian Literary Prize, wittily remarked in his review, it's a fair guess that Jeet Thayil's 'Narcopolis' is unlikely to nudge its way onto Oprah's summer reading list any time soon. This tale from the underbelly of s Bombay is about as squalid as it can. Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil (, pages) Jeet Thayil's (Kerala, India, ) debut novel, Narcopolis, is the only work by an author from India long listed for the Man Booker www.doorway.ru has lately been a number of works published that seek to show us the "real world" of the Indian mega-cities, the world beyond the international headquarters and the Rolex dealerships.

Dens and iniquity. It’s creepy yet kind of cool to think that Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis, once skulked the opium dens of Mumbai, India. Thayil—an addict for 20 years. Written in Thayil's poetic and affecting prose, Narcopolis charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis. Narcopolis opens in Bombay in the late s, as its narrator first arrives from New York to find himself entranced with the city's underworld, in particular an opium den and attached brothel. A cast of unforgettably degenerate and magnetic characters works and patronizes the venue, including Dimple, the eunuch who makes pipes in the den; Rumi, the salaryman and husband whose. Nacropolis by Jeet Thayil is an opiate, a page-turner, a hookah-smoke-filled exploration of Bombay through adventures in grotesque and conversations of the underbelly. The metropolis is presented as the beloved city of drug- and dream- addicts.