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Narcopolis

By: Jeet Thayil
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room a young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame as men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. In Shuklaji Street they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. But then whispers build of a new terror, something that shifts the tenuous balance of survival for the city's nameless, invisible poor.

A rich, hallucinatory dream of a novel, Narcopolis captures the Bombay of the 1970s in all its compelling squalor. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets and gangsters, it is a lyrical and unforgettable journey into a sprawling underworld.

The reader is Robertson Dean.

©2012 Jeet Thayil (P)2012 Faber & Faber Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Urban
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Harrowing and beautiful in equal measure. Great storytelling. A wonderful tapestry of characters. Loved it.

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