In this book, "the hero or heroin of the story" is the intoxicating city of Bombay, which over a span of about thirty years has had its share of upheavals felt by all who live there. Much like the smoke that pervades Rashid's Bombay opium den on Shuklaji Street, Narcopolis has a somewhat swirly, surreal lingering effect, one that begins with its one-sentence prologue carried out over several pages, continues as it moves through the lives of the people who can be found on the street, and doesn't end even long past the time the last page has been turned. It is Jeet Thayil's first novel, filled with passion and poetic prose it's a very good, one-of-a-kind read that captured me right away. Although Narcopolis is a unique novel in its own right, it definitely belongs with the wave of incredible fiction that has recently been coming from India and other areas of South Asia. Yes." And after reading the last word (which also happens to be the first word) of the story, my mind hadn't changed one bit.
******* Halfway through the novel at a point where my brain demanded sleep, before putting the book down I wrote a brief note to myself on a piece of paper used as a bookmark: " Midway - loving the book.
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