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In an opium den on Shuklaji Street in Bombay in the 1970s, the narrator meets Dimple, a eunuch who prepares the pipes, and the den's world changes as heroin arrives.
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Narcisa: Our Lady of Ashes
Cigano, an American drifter living rough in Rio de Janeiro after leaving prison clean of heroin, meets Narcisa, a poet and street addict, and falls for her.
Requiem for a Dream
Four New Yorkers, a widow taking diet pills so she can appear on a TV game show, her son, his girlfriend and his best friend, who start dealing heroin, slide into addiction in Selby's airless prose.
The Shadow Lines
A boy growing up in Calcutta pieces together the lives of his family across Calcutta, Dhaka and London, and a death in a riot in 1964.
The Man with the Golden Arm
Frankie Machine, a card dealer in Chicago's Polish neighbourhood, back from the war with a morphine habit, wants to be a jazz drummer and to get clear of the life.
Monkey Grip
Nora, a single mother living in shared houses in inner Melbourne in the 1970s, falls in love with Javo, a junkie actor who keeps disappearing.
Let the Great World Spin
On the day Philippe Petit walks a wire between the Twin Towers, a dozen New Yorkers' lives intersect in a novel about connection in the vertical city.
Trainspotting
Renton, Sick Boy, Begbie, and Spud run together through heroin-era 1980s Leith in a novel written out in the Edinburgh that English-reading publishing had previously been allowed to leave out.
The God of Small Things
In Kerala, twins Estha and Rahel are separated after one catastrophic day in 1969, shaped by caste, politics and a forbidden love, and the novel circles that day in lush, time-jumping prose.
The Virgin Suicides
Five sisters in 1970s suburban Michigan kill themselves one by one, and the neighbourhood boys who loved them from afar spend decades trying to understand why.
The Twyborn Affair
Before the First World War, Eudoxia Vatzatzis lives as the young companion of an elderly Greek on the French Riviera, the first of the lives of Eddie Twyborn, a Sydney judge's son.
Deep River
Four Japanese travellers with separate wounds arrive at Varanasi on a tourist itinerary, and Endo tracks what the Ganges does to each of their unlikely faiths.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
A Vietnamese-American man writes a letter to his illiterate mother, telling her everything: war, displacement, queerness, and the beauty he found despite it all.