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The novel is a first-rate literary achievement and the lucid and versatile prose style bespeaks mastery of language, and lends itself to finding richness and value in the surreal, the mystical, the natural, the haunted, the stuff of vivid dreams and hallucinations, and occasionally collides with the world of the restless dead. Nothing like this exists in Indian literature. Nacropolis, his first novel, has been translated into five languages. As a musician and songwriter, he is one half of the contemporary music project Sridhat/Thayil. He is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets. His four poetry collections include These Errors Are Correct and English. He was educatied in Hong Kong, New York, and Bombay, cities where his father worked as an editor and writer. Jeet Thayil was born in 1959 in Kerala, India. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose. Narcopolis is a rich, chaotic, hallucinatory dream of a novel that captures the Bombay of the 1970s in all its compelling squalor. There are too many of them to count in this broken city. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. Hookers call for custom through the bars of their cages as their pimps slouch in doorways in the half-light.

Narcopolis novel