
“Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated.”
— implied publisher/reviewer
“This 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 the subcontinent's familiar literary lights.”
— implied publisher/reviewer
“Above all, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul.”
— implied publisher/reviewer
“Written in Thayil's poetic and affecting prose”
— implied publisher/reviewer
“A cast of unforgettably degenerate and magnetic characters”
— implied publisher/reviewer
Narcopolis
Year
2012
Pages
288
Praise
“Jeet Thayil's luminous debut novel completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated.”
— implied publisher/reviewer
“This 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 the subcontinent's familiar literary lights.”
— implied publisher/reviewer
“Above all, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul.”
— implied publisher/reviewer
“Written in Thayil's poetic and affecting prose”
— implied publisher/reviewer
“A cast of unforgettably degenerate and magnetic characters”
— implied publisher/reviewer
Description
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