Low

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

About the author

Jeet Thayil

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