Narcopolis

Informationen zum Autor Jeet Thayil was born in Kerala, India in 1959 and educated in Hong Kong, New York and Bombay. He is a songwriter and guitarist, and has published four collections of poetry. He is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008). He currently lives in New Delhi. Klappentext 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. In Old Bombay, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. Zusammenfassung 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. In Old Bombay, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium.

Product details

• Authors: Jeet Thayil
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.02.2013
• EAN: 9780571275786
• ISBN: 978-0-571-27578-6
• No. of pages: 292
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Indische SchriftstellerInnen; Werke (div.)