'Someone is cutting off victims’ fingers in New Delhi and vampires and lycans are suspects in this ambitious mix of detection and the supernatural from Singh.’
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Publishers Weekly
’Sajan Dayal, a Delhi detective, pursues a serial (though nonlethal) collector of human fingers. Dayal’s team encounters would-be vampires and werewolves, plus a woman named Razia who may or may not be centuries old.’
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Publishers Weekly , Spring 2016 Announcements
’An intriguing mix of history, myth and the realities of contemporary New Delhi…Astonishing and satisfying.’
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Reviewing the Evidence
’Superbly gothic…The novel is a compelling one and certain to be a great addition to courses on detective fiction and noir, especially given its focus on a city that has not necessarily or traditionally been attached to mystery and mayhem. Singh is giving places like Los Angeles and San Francisco a run for their money in this re-envisioning of the urban noir.’
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Asian American Literature Fans
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Necropolis is a ravishing beauty of prose that is as sumptuous as it is gripping…Imagine a cocktail of V.S. Naipaul, Agatha Christie, Elmore Leonard, and E.M. Forster, and you have the essence of this haunting and ferociously charming novel.’
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Ken Bruen , author of
Green Hell
’I tore though
Necropolis with great pleasure and a fair measure of unease. It’s a grisly, wonderfully written novel that interweaves disparate genres and styles into a whole that satisfies thoroughly. As fine a crime novel as I’ve read in the last year.’
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Scott Phillips , author of
The Ice Harvest
’Avtar Singh’s
Necropolis is an ode to ancient, medieval, and Old Delhi, a romantic ballad that cuts across time, if not place, and melds features of classic detective fiction with those of the hard-boiled and roman noir in a style that is exquisitely the author’s.’
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Sumana Mukherjee ,
Mint
Necropolis follows Sajan Dayal, a detective in pursuit of a serial (though nonlethal) collector of fingers. He encounters would-be vampires and werewolves, and a woman named Razia who may or may not be centuries old. Guided by Singh’s gorgeous and masterful writing, the novel peels back layers of a city in thrall to its past, hostage to its present, and bitterly divided as to its future. Delhi went from being an imperial capital to provincial backwater in a few centuries: the journey back to exploding commercial metropolis has been compressed into a few
decades. Combining elements of crime, fantasy, and noir,
Necropolis tackles the questions of origin, ownership, and class that such a revolution inevitably raises. The world of Delhi, the sweep of its history–its grandeur, grimness, and criminality–all of it comes alive in
Necropolis.
O autorze
Avtar Singh is the author of The Beauty of These Present Things. He has worked as a magazine editor in Mumbai and Delhi. He lives in Delhi with his wife, son, and singing dog.
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