![]() ![]() Like everybody else, I’ve had different influences at different stages. Who would you cite as your influences as a writer, including both Indian and non-Indian authors? ![]() PP: Because of the subject matter, some readers have compared your book to Thomas de Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater or William Burrough’s Naked Lunch. He spoke to Publishing Perspectives by email. ![]() Thayil’s impressive background as a journalist, musician and poet are all on display in the rhythms, lyricism and accuracy of his nonlinear account. Narcopolis grapples with deep existential and social questions, avoiding easy answers and deviating from the more sentimental tone you sometimes find in other Indian novels that are popular in the United States. Jeet Thayil’s searing, semi-autobiographical debut novel Narcopolis tells the “secret history” of Bombay through the lives of a beautiful eunuch prostitute, an elderly Chinese man, a violent businessman, a postmodern artist, and others who frequent an opium den on Shuklaji Street. ![]()
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