Indian author-poet Jeet Thayil is among the 12 authors who are long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction worth 50,000 pounds and an assured spurt in the sales of the prize-winning book.
His debut novel Narcopolis is a tale of vice and passion set against a backdrop of late 1970s Bombay finds a New Yorker becoming entranced with the underworld culture of an opium den and brothel where he encounters a pipe-making eunuch, a violent businessman, and a Chinese refugee.
Thayil's book selected for the long-list is titled 'Narcopolis,' the novel starts with a prologue that is one six and half page run-on sentence.
You can read the prologue of the book here:...
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12:43 PM, Jul 27, 2012
London: Noted Indian poet and writer Jeet Thayil is among 12 authors long-listed for the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Fiction worth 50,000 pounds and an assured spurt in the sales of the prize-winning book. Kerala-born Thayil, 53, is the only Indian writer in this year's long-list that includes known writers such as Will Self and Hilary Mantel. Thayil's book selected for the long-list is titled 'Narcopolis'. The 12 books...
11:15 AM, Jul 26, 2012
