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ISbN 978-0-14-312303-3 $16.00 (NCR)
Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 304 pp. Rights: F25
Pub history: The Penguin Press hc 978-1-59420-330-5
On sale: 3/26/2013
“ A brilliant first novel. . . .
Nothing like this exists in Indian
literature.” —The Sunday Guardian (London)
“ In ambition, Narcopolis is reminiscent of
Roberto Bolaño; but it is Denis Johnson’s
Jesus’ Son—the best junkie book of the last
quarter century—that is its closer kin.”
—The Telegraph (U.K.)
ClassiC Penguin
The internationally acclaimed novel of
Bombay’s sprawling underworld
Narcopolis
A Novel
Jeet Thayil
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 and has more in common in its subject
matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than
with that of the subcontinent’s familiar literary lights. Above all, it
is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a
nation about to sell its soul.
n Jeet Thayil recently made the news following his public reading of
Salman Rushdie’s The Satanic Verses at the Jaipur Literary Festival
in India
n For readers of Roberto Bolaño, Denis Johnson, and Irving Welsh
Jeet thAyil is the author of four poetry collections,
including These Errors Are Correct and English and is the editor of
The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.
As a musician and songwriter, he is one-half of the contemporary
music project Sridhar/Thayil. He lives in Delhi, India.
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