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Alan warner this is a compelling, often exhilarating debut. Beginning with a one page prologue that immediately immerses you in the world of jeets melancholy and masterful storytelling, chocolate saints encompasses many places, many people and many times. Jeet thayil is an indian poet, novelist, librettist and musician. He is the editor of the bloodaxe book of contemporary indian poets 2008. A rich, hallucinatory dream that captures bombay in all its compelling squalor, narcopolis completely subverts and challenges the literary traditions for which the indian novel is celebrated. Jeet thayil, booker prize shortlisted author of narcopolis night theatre is astonishing stark and luminous, nimble and tensile, powerful and propulsive in the moment, but also full of lingering wonder. Written in poetic and affecting prose, jeet thayils luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. Jeet thayil discusses his man booker prizeshortlisted novel narcopolis with writer and journalist stuart evers a rich novel that delves into.
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Bitte nutzen sie bevorzugt emails, um uns zu kontaktieren. Author jeet thayil looks at todays indian society and culture from an unusual perspective. In rashids opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts. If you were to write a story set in bombay, as the poet jeet thayil prefers to call the city now known as mumbai in his outstanding debut novel. Narcopolis by jeet thayil plumbs the world of substance addiction with a feverish imaginative power. Inside indias dark underbelly a former addict, jeet thayil spent decades in mumbais seedy, drugridden underworld. Jeet thayil author jeet thayil was born in kerala, india in 1959 andeducated in hong kong, new york and mumbai. Narcopolis isnt so much a story as a nonlinear network of little stories and vignettes. Written in poetic and affecting prose, jeet thayil s luminous debut novel charts the evolution of a great and broken metropolis across three decades. An exquisite younger lady leans to carry a longstemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling throughout her darkish eyes. Jeet thayils second novel is out five years after his first. Read narcopolis a novel by jeet thayil available from rakuten kobo. This content was uploaded by our users and we assume good faith they have the permission to share this book.
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