The Man Booker Prize Best Novel (nominee)
A rich and hallucinatory novel, set around a Bombay opium den, that follows a fascinating cast of flawed characters as the city transforms itself over three decades.
Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my... Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my... Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Jeet Thayil's Bombay is a city dreaming troubled dreams, and NARCOPOLIS will change the way you imagine it." - Hari Kunzru
"Completely fascinating and told with a feverish and furious necessity." - Alan Warner
"Completely fascinating and told with a feverish and furious necessity." - Alan Warner
Used availability for Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis
Hardback Editions
April 2012 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
July 2013 : Paperback
February 2013 : UK Paperback
September 2012 : UK Paperback
January 2012 : UK Paperback
Audio Editions
March 2021 : Audio CD
Title: Narcopolis
Author(s): Jeet Thayil
Publisher: Tantor and Blackstone Publishing
Availability: Amazon
March 2021 : Audio CD

Title: Narcopolis
Author(s): Jeet Thayil
Publisher: Tantor and Blackstone Publishing
Availability: Amazon
January 2015 : UK Audio CD
October 2012 : USA Audio CD
October 2012 : USA Audio CD
October 2012 : USA MP3 CD
October 2012 : USA Audio edition
October 2012 : Australia Audio edition
October 2012 : Canada Audio edition
October 2012 : UK Audio edition
October 2012 : USA Audio edition
October 2012 : Canada Audio edition
Kindle Editions
April 2012 : USA Kindle edition
January 2012 : Australia, Canada, UK Kindle edition