| Description |
viii, 292 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: Book One The City of O -- 1.Dimple -- 2.Rumi on Pimps -- 3.A Painter Visits -- 4.Mr Lee's Lessons in Living -- Book Two The Story of the Pipe -- 1.In Spain with Mr Lee -- 2.White Lotus, White Clouds -- 3.̀Opium-smoking bandit' -- 4.His Father, the Insect -- 5.̀Light me a cigarette' -- 6.To Wuhan -- 7.Twice Abducted -- 8.To Bombay -- 9.The Pipe Comes to Rashid's -- Book Three The Intoxicated -- 1.A Walk on Shuklaji Street -- 2.Bengali -- 3.Business Practices among the Criminal Class: An Offer -- 4.The Sari and the Burkha -- 5.̀Dum Maro Dum' -- 6.Stinking Asafoetida -- 7.Business Practices among the Criminal Class: C & E -- 8.A Chemical Understanding -- 9.The Intoxicated Entity -- 10.Confessional -- 11.Flight -- 12.Rehab, Relapse -- Book Four Some Uses of Reincarnation -- 1.A Large Accumulation of Small Defeats -- 2.The Citizen |
| Summary |
Shuklaji Street, in Old Bombay. In Rashid's opium room the air is thick with voices and ghosts: Hindu, Muslim, Christan. A young woman holds a long stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling accross 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 Pather Maar, the stone killer , whose victims are the nameless, invisible poor. In the broken city, there are too many to count |
| Analysis |
English crime fiction |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, 2012 |
| Subject |
Americans -- Mumbai -- Fiction
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Death -- Fiction.
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Domestic fiction, Indian
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Gangsters -- India -- Mumbai -- Fiction.
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Ghost stories.
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Opium smokers -- India -- Mumbai -- Fiction
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Opium -- Fiction.
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Poor -- India -- Mumbai -- Fiction.
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| SUBJECT |
Mumbai (India) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012073713
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Mumbai (India) -- Fiction.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101978
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Mumbai (India) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2012073713 -- 1970s -- Fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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Novels.
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| LC no. |
2012397569 |
| ISBN |
0571275761 (paperback) |
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9780571275762 (paperback) |
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