In that, it sets up everything, your possible reactions, how you should read it (slow, repeated puffs). And that is the best piece of writing in the book. One gets it, this is what Jeet Thayil is out to do, this is one long pull off an opium pipe – that is how one gets guided into the book, a prologue of one sentence. Like the amazing Chinamanlast year, which mimics the stages of a cricket test match, even the way in which the writing guides the reader into a certain mind state through the book. I feel a bit more kindly towards Narcopolis (very little) after finishing it, in the sense that perhaps I now understand what he was trying to do, also comprehension has dawned as to why the hullaboo off shores about this book. Isn’t the cover gorgeous though? by Jimmy Zombie ( )
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