Low - by Jeet Thayil (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i><b>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.</b></i> 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, <i>Low </i>is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration - and, perhaps, epiphany. <b> </b><b>'Jeet Thayil delights not just in pushing the bounds of possibility, but in smashing them to </b><b>smithereens.'</b> <b>John Burnside</b><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"The book is relevant now on a time and space level, and serves as a detailed portrayal of our culture and political climate. But the themes woven in: disregard, grief, aimlessness, love. These remain timeless. And even disregarding all this, <i>Low</i> is a picture of a moment, a snapshot in time and of the depths of a single character's despair. Perhaps it doesn't have to be more than that. -- <i> Chicago Review of Books </i><br><br>"A novel of our times.... <i>Low</i> is beautifully written, intelligent and gripping, and elicits compassion for a character who is pitifully adrift, despite what some might see as his disqualifying privilege." ― <i>Spectator USA</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Jeet Thayil</b> is a poet, musician and novelist. He was born in Kerala in 1959 and educated at Jesuit schools in Bombay, Hong Kong and New York. He worked as a journalist for twenty-three years before writing his bestselling debut novel, <i><b>Narcopolis</b></i>, which won the<b> </b><b>DSC Prize</b> for South Asian Literature and was shortlisted for the <b>Man Booker Prize</b><b> </b>and the<b> Man Asian Literary Priz</b><b>e</b>. His second novel, <b><i>The </i><i>Book of Chocolate Saints</i></b><b>, </b> was longlisted for the <b>DSC Prize</b> and described as <b>'easily the most original and formally inventive novel to come out of India in years'</b><b> by Salman Rushdie.</b> Thayil's five poetry collections include <i>These Errors Are </i><i>Correct</i>, which won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award (India's National Academy of Letters) and he is also the editor of <i>The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets</i>.
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