Recently there has been a lot of press about readability, and about the Booker judges and their intense literary snobbery (as if this is at all surprising), and so I am particularly interested in their decision. It is set in 1970s Old Bombay and concerns. Carl, trying to keep to the moral high ground, trying to protect his position as the meeting's architect, said: But there are good habits and there are bad habits. Book Review: Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil On October 16, the Man Booker Prize judges will announce a winner, and I can’t wait. Narcopolis is the debut novel of Indian author Jeet Thayil, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. She said, Oh, who knows, there are so many good reasons and nobody mentions them and the main thing nobody mentions is the comfort of it, how good it is to be a slave to something, the regularity and the habit of addiction, the fact that it's an antidote to loneliness, and the way it becomes your family, gives you mother love and protection and keeps you safe. 2.01, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Dallas rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Dallas, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2013 by Faber & Faber. Jeet Thayils Booker-nominated novel starts out in Bombay of the 1970s, when the narrator Dom Ullis arrives in the city, having been deported back to India from.

“So when Carl said, Why do you take drugs? she told him what she thought, told him the truth because the least such a question deserved was a real answer.

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