NARCOPOLIS: A NOVEL

Book ID/图书代码： 03635010B39887

English Summary/英文概要： Narcopolis is set in Bombay, mainly in the late 1970s. The narrator of the book arrives from New York and soon finds himself entranced with the underworld of that city, in particular, an opium den and attached brothel.. A cast of unforgettably degenerate and yet charming characters work these venues; most notablyDimple, the eunuch, whose job it is to refill the pipes in the den.
After an interlude in Mao’s China, the novel returns to Bombay and the world of pimps, hustlers, addicts, artists and gangsters. The seductive world of opium-smoking is starting to give way to harder-edged heroin from Pakistan, and the city itself is starting to change, modernise … McMumbai just around the corner.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如同歐文．威爾許(Irvine Welsh)的《猜火車》，張狂頹廢的極致！

這是只屬於夜晚的故事，在日光照耀下就化為微塵…
在迷惑煙幕籠罩下的古城，1970年代的印度孟買
作者Jeet Thayil透過個性鮮明又墮落喪狂的書中角色
從陰暗的角落窺探整座城市的風貌和轉變

Narcopolis的時空背景建立在1970年代的孟買。敘述書中故事的人從紐約來到孟買這個城市，卻發現自己身陷於鴉片窟和妓院裡，與這城市的黑暗面共處。本書中的角色個性鮮明，墮落頹廢卻又令人印象深刻，他們在這座城市裡的各個罪惡之地中打滾，這個世界除了鴉片的煙霧之外，還充滿了皮條客、妓女、騙子、吸毒的人、藝術家、詩人和土匪。這座充滿頹廢之美的古都，隨著時代進步，孟買漸漸轉型為現代化都市，鴉片被海洛因取代，悠久的歷史痕跡悄悄的從城市的每一個角落淡去…。(Chris)

Awards/获奖情况：2012年布克獎入圍唯一印度作家

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Germany – Fischer

Italy – Neri Pozza

France – Editions de l’Olivier

Spain – Plataforma

Turkey - Ayrinti Yayinlari

英國著名出版社Faber & Faber 2012首推作家

About the Author/作者介绍： Jeet Thayil was born, to a family of Syrian Christians, in Kerala, India, in 1959. He was educated in Jesuit schools in Bombay, Hongkong and New York, cities in which his father worked as an editor and writer. He worked as a journalist in Bombay and Hongkong before returning to New York in 1998 to read for an MFA in poetry at Sarah Lawrence College. He then worked as a journalist with a newspaper in New York City, until, in 2004, he moved from the United States to India to write. His books of poetry are: These Errors Are Correct (2008), English (2004), Apocalypso (1997) and Gemini (1992); and he is the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets (2008). As a musician and songwriter, he is one half of the contemporary music project Sridhar/Thayil. He lives in Bombay with no wife, no children, no internet, no newspapers, no television and no pets. Narcopolis is his first novel.
Jeet Thayil在印度的一個敘利亞基督徒的家庭中出生。他的父親是編輯兼作家，因工作之需，除了孟買之外，還需要到香港和紐約工作，因此他的童年就在這三地的天主教教會學校度過。他在孟買和香港當記者，之後到紐約莎拉勞倫斯學院(Sarah Lawrence College)念藝術碩士學位，專攻詩學。之後他在紐約一家報社當記者，在2004年從美國搬回老家印度，專職寫作。他的詩集作品有《These Errors Are Correct》、《English》、《Apocalypso》和《Gemini》。他同時也是印度施人作品選集《The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets》的總編。他還是個音樂家和編曲家。現在他在完全與外界隔離的狀態下，獨身一人住在孟買。

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