Low

From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man's whirlwind weekend of self-destructive grief.

About the author

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.

Summary

Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife's ashes.

Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis - his faculties ever distorted - is quite sure he can trust.

Heady, heartbroken and heartfelt, Low is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration - and, perhaps, epiphany.

'Jeet Thayil delights not just in pushing the bounds of possibility, but in smashing them to smithereens.' John Burnside

Foreword

From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man's whirlwind weekend of self-destructive grief.

Product details

• Authors: Jeet Thayil, Thayil Jeet
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.01.2021
• EAN: 9780571356423
• ISBN: 978-0-571-35642-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 14 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction & related items, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Urban, FICTION / Humorous / Black Humor, Modern & contemporary fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Fiction and Related items