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    Narcopolis

    Written by Jeet Thayil

    Narrated by Robertson Dean

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    About this audiobook

    Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay: In Rashid's opium room a young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame as men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. In Shuklaji Street they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. But then whispers build of a new terror, something that shifts the tenuous balance of survival for the city's nameless, invisible poor.

    A rich, hallucinatory dream of a novel, Narcopolis captures the Bombay of the 1970s in all its compelling squalor. With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets and gangsters, it is a lyrical and unforgettable journey into a sprawling underworld.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFaber & Faber
    Release dateOct 11, 2012
    ISBN9780571308484
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