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Jeet Thayil
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Narcopolis, in prose of extraordinary power, a novel about the women whose roles were suppressed, reduced or erased in the Gospels. ‘Dazzling, smouldering .
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A tale of vice and passion set against a backdrop of late 1970’s Bombay finds a New Yorker becoming entranced with the underworld culture of an opium den and brothel…
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From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man’s whirlwind weekend of self-destructive grief.
These images, taken over a period of thirty years, form an archive of breathtaking historical scope. They offer the viewer unparalleled intimacy and access to the lives of some of…
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Covers 55 years of Indian poetry in English. This anthology represents not just the major poets of the past half-century - the canonical writers who have dominated Indian poetry and…
Thayil's poems refract his vibrant, unique and far-flung life experiences through the prism of his tremendous lyric intellect.
The Book of Chocolate Saints follows the unforgettable character Francis Newton Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both.
The third novel by Man Booker-shortlisted author Jeet Thayil is a blackly comic portrait of one man’s orgy of self-destructive grief.
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Narcopolis is a rich and hallucinatory novel set around a Bombay opium den, as the city transforms itself over three decades. In Old Bombay…
Follows the unforgettable character Xavier and his journey towards salvation - or damnation - or perhaps both. This novel paints a hallucinatory portrait of an ambiguous soul: a self-destructive figure…
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The narrator in these poems abandons the sectarian histories of 1990’s Bombay for the relative clam of New York, only to find himself a witness to September the 11th, 2001…
