“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.
