In Conversation with Jeet Thayil
The 12th Hong Kong International Literary Festival
Jeet Thayil
The 12th Hong Kong Literary Festival
6th October 2012
In conversation with Jeet Thayil, novelist, poet and musician
Jeet Thayil and Hugh Chiverton, RTHK Radio 3
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Jeet Thayil and Hugh Chiverton
Jeet , born in India, educated in Hong Kong, Mumbai and New York, and talked about Bombay and Mumbai, the changed city, his experiences and writing of his first novel Narcopolis, short listed for the 2012 Booker prize.
The Crowd
Book Signing
Vicki and Nirmala
Another Nirmala, Nirmala Thomas
“Shuklaji Street in the bowels of Foras Road, Bombay’s squalid red-light district of reeking brothels and drug-dens, provides the setting for Narcopolis, Jeet Thayil’s debut novel.” Read on:
Vernon Ram’s review at The Asian Review of Books
http://www.asianreviewofbooks.com/new/?ID=1291#!
See my review:
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