![]() In 2004, he moved back to India and began writing Narcopolis. He continued this pattern as an adult: spending twelve years working as a journalist in Hong Kong, another ten or so years in Bombay, and in 1998 returning to New York to earn his MFA. But it’s about much more than that as well.īorn, like our narrator, in Kerala to a Christian family, Thayil split his time growing up between Hong Kong, Bombay, and New York City. “Bombay,” the book begins, “which obliterated its own history by changing its name and surgically altering its face, is the hero or heroin of this story.” As the title suggests, the book is about drugs and about place. ![]() Jeet Thayil’s debut novel, the deftly and aptly titled Narcopolis is-like the polis in which it takes place-part cacophony, part symphony: a whirlwind of drugs, sex, violence, loves, lives, deaths, and more than anything, stories. Narcopolis By Jeet Thayil The Penguin Press Hardcover : 304 pages English Release Date: April 12, 2012 ![]()
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