Description
Narcopolis is the first book written by Jeet Thayil, an author from India. This book was one of the finalists for the Man Booker Prize in 2012. The story 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. A novel set in India for a fan of William Burrough’s Naked Lunch.
Reviews: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/feb/17/narcopolis-jeet-thayil-review
