it took him five years to write the novel, and he called it "the opposite of catharsis. The novel draws on his own experiences as a drug addict, and what he calls "the lost 20 years of my life". The story expands to encompass such characters as Dimple, a hijra, Rashid, the opium house's owner, and Mr Lee, a former Chinese officer, all of whom have stories to tell. The novel's narrator arrives in Bombay, where he becomes seduced into the opium underground. It is set in 1970s Old Bombay and concerns opium and its influence. Narcopolis is the debut novel of Indian author Jeet Thayil, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
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