Book Details
Narcopolis
Thayil, Jeet
Summary
A tale of vice and passion set against a backdrop of late 1970s Bombay finds a New Yorker becoming entranced with the underworld culture of an opium den and brothel where he encounters a pipe-making eunuch, a violent businessman, and a Chinese refugee.
A tale of vice and passion set against a backdrop of late 1970s Bombay finds a New Yorker becoming entranced with the underworld culture of an opium den and brothel where he encounters a pipe-making eunuch, a violent businessman, and a Chinese refugee.
Highlights
- Easy to enjoy: 304 pages · Paperback
- By Thayil, Jeet
Details
- ISBN: 9780571275786
- Author: Thayil, Jeet
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 304
- Language: English
- Publication date: 7 February 2013
- Condition: Used – Very Good
About the authors
Thayil, Jeet and Jeet Thayil · Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
Reviews
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.
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