Low
Jeet Thayil
Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 7th Jan '21
£8.99
From the Booker-shortlisted author: one man’s whirlwind weekend of self-destructive grief.
SKU: 9780571356423
Categories: Fiction and Related items, Fiction: general and literary, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Modern and contemporary fictionDescription
Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wife’s ashes. Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis – his faculties ever distorted – is quite sure he can trust. Heady, heartbroken and heartfelt, Low is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration – and, perhaps, epiphany. ‘Jeet Thayil delights not just in pushing the bounds of possibility, but in smashing them to smithereens.’ John Burnside
Additional information
Weight | 0.194 kg |
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Dimensions | 14 × 129 × 198 mm |
Page Count | 240 |
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