About the Book: Narcopolis
Winner of theDSC Prize for South Asian Literature 2013
Shortlist For The Man Booker Prize 2012
Narcopolis is a redefinition of the Indian novel, an utterly original,
hallucinatory dream that captures the Bombay of the 1970s in all its compelling
squalor.
Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashids opium room the air is thick and
potent. A beautiful young woman leans to hold along-stemmed pipe over a flame,
her hair falling across her dark eyes. Around her, men sprawl and mutter in the
gloom, each one drifting with his own tide. Here, people say that you introduce
only your worst enemy to opium.
Shortlisted for the