Jeet Thayil
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This fascinating but patchy novel explores female characters in the New Testament who have been marginalised and misrepresented by history
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Letters: Readers respond to the idea of cultural appropriation in literature and the assumption that only those with lived experience are able to tell an authentic story
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A man’s journey to Mumbai to sprinkle his beloved’s ashes turns into a drug-fuelled trip to oblivion
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The books interview: the former addict whose novel Narcopolis was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize on the western whitewashing of saints and the diagnosis that forced him to write
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Dublin award lineup has room for novels from 17 languages, opening window on best world literature, says Tash Aw, one of the judges
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John Williams's Stoner, Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis and Richard House's Booker contender The Kills are among the summer's most hotly debated books
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Narcopolis, his woozy tale of opiate addiction in Bombay shortlisted for the Booker, takes $50,000 award
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Jeet Thayil and Tan Twan Eng, shortlisted for last year's Booker prize, are up against each other again on the shortlist for Asian literature award
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After reading her masterful Bring Up the Bodies, no one can argue that historical fiction is irrelevant to our time
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Nicholas Wroe argues that Jeet Thayil's Narcopolis, set in 70s and 80s Mumbai, should win this year's Booker prize
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Jeet Thayil: India's tendency for self-censorship is saddening. But even the most liberal minds sometimes see the need for holding back
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Can realism match up to the reality of the modern world? We chart the different directions chosen by writers Jeet Thayil and Etgar Keret as they push fiction out of the comfort zone
Podcast
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Kevin Rushby is drawn into Mumbai's hazy world of opium addiction
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Response: An overheated 19th-century imagination misses the point of my contemporary collection, says Jeet Thayil
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