Narcopolis

Author : Jeet Thayil
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571275779

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Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil Pdf

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...Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christian. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Here, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. There is an underworld whisper of a new terror: the Pathar Maar, the stone killer, whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count. Stretching across three decades, with an interlude in Mao's China, it portrays a city in collision with itself. 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.

Author : Jeet Thayil
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9789354925962

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These Errors Are Correct by Jeet Thayil Pdf

A meditation on grief, These Errors are Correct is Jeet Thayil's most intimate work to date. In poems of tenderness and rage, time blurs into a continuous present visited by Billy the Kid, the Buddha, Lata Mangeshkar, Jesus and Beethoven, by unnamed protagonists for whom faith and addiction are interchangeable, and by a remote god-like figure who will 'lick / your wound with his infected tongue'. A range of fixed and invented forms--rhymed syllabics, terza rima, ghazals, sonnets, the sestina, the canzone, stealth rhymes--make for a virtuosic, haunting collection. Originally published in 2008, the book has been out of print since 2010. With illustrations by the author, this new edition returns to the reader an essential and timeless book of poems. These Errors are Correct won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Author : Jeet Thayil
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571356430

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Low by Jeet Thayil Pdf

Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife's ashes. Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis - his faculties ever distorted - is quite sure he can trust. Heady, heartbroken and heartfelt, Low is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration - and, perhaps, epiphany. 'Jeet Thayil delights not just in pushing the bounds of possibility, but in smashing them to smithereens.' John Burnside

Author : Jeet Thayil
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780571336128

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The Book of Chocolate Saints by Jeet Thayil Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE 2018 'Easily the most original and formally inventive novel to come out of India in years.' Salman Rushdie, Guardian Francis Newton Xavier has lived a wild existence of excess in pursuit of his uncompromising aesthetic vision. His paintings and poems - which embody the flamboyant and decadent jeu d'esprit of his heroes like Baudelaire - have forged his reputation, which is to be celebrated at a new show in Delhi. Approaching middle age in a body ravaged by hard-living, Xavier leaves Manhattan following the 9/11 attacks with his young girlfriend - and his journey home to India becomes a delirious voyage into the past. From his formative years with an infamous school of fin de siècle Bombay poets - as documented by his biographer, Diswas, in these pages - Xavier must move forward into an uncertain future of salvation or damnation. His story results in The Book of Chocolate Saints: an epic novel of contemporary Indian life that probes the mysterious margins where art bleeds into the occult, and celebrates the artist's life itself as a final monument. It is Jeet Thayil's spiritual, passionate, and demented masterpiece.

Author : Peggy Nadramia
Publisher : Hells Kitchen Productions
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989-09-01
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0962328618

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Narcopolis and Other Poems by Peggy Nadramia Pdf

Author : S. D. Chrostowska
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770566293

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The Eyelid by S. D. Chrostowska Pdf

In Greater America, with sleep under siege, this lucid and prophetic novel of ideas depicts the end of human reverie. An unnamed, unemployed, dream-prone narrator finds himself following Chevauchet, diplomat of Onirica, a foreign republic of dreams, to resist a prohibition on sleep in near-future Greater America. On a mission to combat the state-sponsored drugging of citizens with uppers for greater productivity, they traverse an eerie landscape in an everlasting autumn, able to see inside other people’s nightmares and dreams. As Comprehensive Illusion – a social media-like entity that hijacks creativity – overtakes the masses, Chevauchet, the old radical, weakens and disappears, leaving our narrator to take up Chevauchet's dictum that "daydreaming is directly subversive” and forge ahead on his own. In slippery, exhilarating, and erudite prose, The Eyelid revels in the camaraderie of free thinking that can only happen on the lam, aiming to rescue a species that can no longer dream. "A slight but quick-witted and thoughtful philosophical parable that falls somewhere between Camus and Gaiman’s Sandman universe." —Kirkus Reviews "S. D. Chrostowska's The Eyelid is a brilliant, visionary satire on the digital mindscape of twenty-first-century late capitalism embodied in the new global state of Greater America. Insomnia is in; dreams are seditious; sleep is outlawed. Lulled by false fantasies projected by Artificial Intelligence (CI in the book), video games, and media collaborators, humans drug themselves to stay awake so they can slave through the now standard twenty-hour work days. Witty, oracular, Surreal, trenchant, politically astute, and often hilarious, The Eyelid is a throwback to the classics of the genre, Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Samuel Butler's Erewhon. We are turning into a race of sleep-deprived automatons, Chrostowska warns, increasingly unable to mount political opposition or even dream a different future." —Douglas Glover

Author : Ralf Singh,Scott Duvall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1947784064

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Continuum by Ralf Singh,Scott Duvall Pdf

In the near distant future, genius scientist Ben creates the ultimate drugthat unlocks the key to his past. Using his invention to go back in time, Benattempts to uncover the truth behind his father's disappearance two decades ago.With little to go on and a handful of time bending drugs, a trip into the pastunveils dark secrets and dangerous dealings. A manhunt ensues, as the mostpowerful drug lord of his time will do whatever it takes to get high on Ben'ssupply. Time is running out, and even worse, so is Ben's stash! All four issuesof the critically acclaimed series are collected for the first time as well as16 pages of behind-the-scenes extras including concept art, creator commentary,interviews, and a brand new pin-up.

Author : Jeet Thayil
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0143031171

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English by Jeet Thayil Pdf

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. The author's poems refract his vibrant, unique experience through the prism of this tremendous intellect.

Author : Jeet Thayil
Publisher : Arrow
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1529113822

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Names of the Women by Jeet Thayil Pdf

Author : Adam Johnson
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812992793

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The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson Pdf

The son of a singer mother whose career forcibly separated her from her family and an influential father who runs an orphan work camp, Pak Jun Do rises to prominence using instinctive talents and eventually becomes a professional kidnapper and romantic rival to Kim Jong Il. By the author of Parasites Like Us.

Author : Maria Misra
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300145236

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Vishnu's Crowded Temple by Maria Misra Pdf

As it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world's most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its internationally competitive high-tech and software industries, India also contends with extremes of poverty, inequality, and political and religious violence. This accessible and vividly written book presents a new interpretation of India's history, focusing particular attention on the impact of British imperialism on Independent India. Maria Misra begins with the rebellion against the British in 1857 and tracks the country's advance to the present day. India's extremes persist, the author argues, because its politics rest upon a peculiar foundation in which traditional ideas of hierarchy, difference, and privilege coexist to a remarkable degree with modern notions of equality and democracy. The challenge of India's leaders today, as in the last sixty years, is to weave together the disparate threads of the nation's ancient culture, colonial legacy, and modern experience.

Author : Joseph Boyden
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780143189404

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The Orenda by Joseph Boyden Pdf

A visceral portrait of life at a crossroads, The Orenda opens with a brutal massacre and the kidnapping of the young Iroquois Snow Falls, a spirited girl with a special gift. Her captor, Bird, is an elder and one of the Huron Nation's great warriors and statesmen. It has been years since the murder of his family and yet they are never far from his mind. In Snow Falls, Bird recognizes the ghost of his lost daughter and sees the girl possesses powerful magic that will be useful to him on the troubled road ahead. Bird’s people have battled the Iroquois for as long as he can remember, but both tribes now face a new, more dangerous threat from afar. Christophe, a charismatic Jesuit missionary, has found his calling amongst the Huron and devotes himself to learning and understanding their customs and language in order to lead them to Christ. An emissary from distant lands, he brings much more than his faith to the new world. As these three souls dance each other through intricately woven acts of duplicity, small battles erupt into bigger wars and a nation emerges from worlds in flux.

Author : Alison Moore
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781771961462

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The Lighthouse by Alison Moore Pdf

Futh, a middle-aged, recently separated man heads to Germany for a restorative walking holiday. During his circular walk along the Rhine, he contemplates the formative moments of his childhood. At the end of the week, Futh returns to what he sees as the sanctuary of the Hellhaus hotel, unaware of the events which have been unfolding there in his absence.

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888644256

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The Studhorse Man by Robert Kroetsch Pdf

Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard's outrageous adventures are narrated by Demeter Proudfoot, his secret rival, who writes this story while sitting naked in an empty bathtub. In his quest to save his stallion's bloodline from extinction, Hazard leaves a trail of anarchy and confusion. Everything he touches erupts into chaos, necessitating frequent convalescences in the arms of a few good women, except for those of Martha, his long-suffering intended. Told with the ribald zeal of a Prairie beer parlor tall tale and the mythic magnitude of a Greek odyssey, The Studhorse Man is Robert Kroetsch's celebration of unbridled character set against the backdrop of rough-and-ready Alberta emerging after the Second World War.

Author : Stephen Kelman
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408815687

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Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman Pdf

Eleven-year-old Harrison Opoku, the second best runner in Year 7, races through his new life in England with his personalised trainers - the Adidas stripes drawn on with marker pen - blissfully unaware of the very real threat around him. Newly-arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister Lydia, Harri absorbs the many strange elements of city life, from the bewildering array of Haribo sweets, to the frightening, fascinating gang of older boys from his school. But his life is changed forever when one of his friends is murdered. As the victim's nearly new football boots hang in tribute on railings behind fluorescent tape and a police appeal draws only silence, Harri decides to act, unwittingly endangering the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe.