Readers are introduced to a desperate set of characters - including an opium dealer named Rashid and one of his clients Dimple, a eunuch and prostitute who grew up in a brothel. The novel begins in the 1970s, with its narrator mesmerized with a grimy opium den. He spent two decades of his life as an opium addict, immersed in the dark underbelly of Bombay - now known as Mumbai.Ī celebrated poet and a journalist, Thayil has just published his first novel, Narcopolis. How?Īuthor Jeet Thayil looks at today's Indian society and culture from an unusual perspective.
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