Teju Cole & Jeet Thayil: Dream-like Narratives

Two distinctive and appealing authorial voices merge in this event. Teju Cole’s Open City is a melancholy and meditative debut novel following a young man’s journey from Nigeria to Manhattan. In Jeet Thayil’s hallucinatory Narcopolis, the setting is a Bombay opium den that follows a cast of flawed characters as the city transforms itself over three tumultuous decades. Part of Edinburgh International Book Festival

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