Written in English
Booker 2012 · Shortlist
Narcopolis
Narcopolis
Jeet Thayil · 53 when first published
Novel · 304 pages
AI-generated summary:In Rashid's opium den on Shuklaji Street in Old Bombay, addicts, pimps and poets drift through the smoke around a young woman who prepares the pipes, while rumours spread of a killer preying on the city's invisible poor.