However, whilst Midnight’s Children went some way to raising the reader to the stars with its use of magic realism, Narcopolis insists on keeping our eyes on the gutter, fixed on a Bombay that is rife with drugs and criminal activity. There are certainly some similarities: both are concerned with a newly emancipated India, both feature unreliable narrators and both favour a verbosity of language and a playful approach to form. With a first line like that, Jeet Thayil’s Narcopolis was undoubtably going to draw comparisons with Salman Rushdie’s Midnights Children. ‘Bombay, which obliterated its own history by changing its name and surgically altering its face’
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