5 contenders for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize

Check out the five nominees on the short list for the 2012 Man Asian Literary Prize.

5. 'Narcopolis,' by Jeet Thayil (India)

“In ‘Narcopolis,’ set in an Old Bombay underworld of gangsters and eunuchs, pimps and pushers... the opium den is revealed as a microcosm of a city in transformation... where the pipe itself is a teller of tales,” Jaggi says of this rich, chaotic, hallucinatory debut novel that begins with a single sentence stretching over six-and-a-half pages and reads like a dream.

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