Jeet Thayil shortlisted for the Man Booker for his debut novel Narcopolis

Jeet Thayil, 53 years has been shortlisted for £ 50,000 the Man Booker Prize for the year 2012 on 11 September 2012. The Kerela born novelist and poet was chosen for the prize for his debut novel Narcopolis. Before this in the year 2008, Arvind Adiga won the booker prize for his debut novel The White Tiger.

Narcopolis the story that begins with Bombay is a masterpiece of a cyclone of drugs, violence, sex, loves, lives and deaths. Even the title suggests the theme of the story that is related to drugs. The story seems to be based on the experiences of Jeet Thayil and has been compared to the William Burrough’s Junky and Thomas de Quincey’s confessions of an English Opium Eater by the Guardian. After winning the award Jeet will be the member of a selected group of Indian and Indian Born Booker winners like Arundhati Roy, Salman Rushdie, Kiran Desai and Arvind Adiga.

In this race of Booker Awards, Jeet Thayil will have to survive a tough competition from Will Self and Harry Mantel, the previous winners of the awards. Creator of the Wolf Hall the book that won booker in 2009, Harry Mantel has been shortlisted for Bring up the Bodies, which a sequel to the Wolf Hall. Umbrella helped Mr. Self in being shortlisted for the award. Will Self, Harry Mantel, Tan Twan Eng, Deborah Levy and Alison Moore are the other shortlisted candidates for the awards.