Narcopolis

In Old Bombay, on Shuklaji Street, Rashid keeps an opium room where the air is heavy with smoke, talk and the dead of every faith. A young woman prepares the pipes at the flame while men lie murmuring in the half-dark, and the den fills with dealers, pimps, poets, gangsters and eunuchs. Word goes round the underworld of the Pathar Maar, a killer who strikes with a stone and chooses only the poor nobody notices. Over thirty years the book traces the city's transformation and a generation lost to drugs, sex, addiction, love and faith, in a country ready to trade away its soul.

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Form

Novel

Set in

India

First published

2012

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9780143123033 (Penguin Books, United States)

9780571275762 (Faber and Faber, United Kingdom)

9781594203305 (Penguin Press, United States)

9780571275786 (Faber & Faber, United Kingdom)

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