Jeet Thayil

Narcopolis Jeet Thayil

Jeet Thayils luminous debut novel completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the Indian novel is celebrated. This is a book about drugs, sex, death, perversion, addiction, love, and god, and has more in common in its subject matter with the work of William S. Burroughs or Baudelaire than with the subcontinents familiar literary lights. Above all, it is a fantastical portrait of a beautiful and damned generation in a nation about to sell its soul. Written in Thayils poetic and affecting prose, Narcopolis charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis.