{"product_id":"9781617754586","title":"Necropolis","description":"\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e, Spring 2016 Announcements\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An intriguing mix of history, myth and the realities of contemporary New Delhi...Astonishing and satisfying.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReviewing the Evidence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eAsian American Literature Fans\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eKen Bruen\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eGreen Hell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I tore though \u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eScott Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ice Harvest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Avtar Singh's \u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eSumana Mukherjee\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003edecades\u003c\/i\u003e. Combining elements of crime, fantasy, and noir, \u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNecropolis\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135689801968,"sku":"9781617754586","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781617754586_p0.jpg?v=1769904769","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781617754586","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}