With a cast of pimps, pushers, poets, gangsters and eunuchs, it is a journey into a sprawling underworld written in electric and utterly original prose. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. Books Literature & Fiction Genre Fiction Buy new: 17.5017.50 4.49 delivery: Dec 28 - 29 Ships from: lambrevsbooks Sold by: lambrevsbooks List Price:25.95Details The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. In the broken city, there are too many to count. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. His first novel, Narcopolis, (Faber & Faber, 2012), was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the Hindu Literary Prize 2013. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. Wait now, light me up so we do this right, yes, hold me steady to the lamp, hold it, hold, good, a slow pull to start with, to draw the smoke low into the lungs, yes, oh my. A rich and hallucinatory novel, set around a Bombay opium den, that follows a fascinating cast of flawed characters as the city transforms itself over three decades.
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