{"product_id":"narcopolis","title":"Narcopolis by Jeet Thayil","description":"\u003ci\u003eWait 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\u003c\/i\u003e... \u003cp\u003eShuklaji 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStretching 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nightshade Books \u0026 Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55439534326089,"sku":"NRCPLS-JT-U_BOOK","price":4.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1032\/4721\/6969\/files\/narcopolis-book-cover.jpg?v=1791537418","url":"https:\/\/nightshade.ie\/products\/narcopolis","provider":"Nightshade Books \u0026 Vinyl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}