Author: Thayil, Jeet Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writersPublished on 23 January 2020 by FABER & FABER in the United Kingdom.Paperback | 240 pages155 x 233 x 20 | 316g Ullis went to the bathroom and carefully unfolded the business card and placed it on the sink. Then he rolled up a note and snorted the last of his wifes ashes.Following the death of his wife, Dominic Ullis escapes to Bombay in search of oblivion and a dangerous new drug, Meow Meow. So begins a glorious weekend of misadventure as he tours the teeming, kaleidoscopic city from its sleek eyries of high-capital to the piss-stained streets, encountering a cast with their own stories to tell, but none of whom Ullis - his faculties ever distorted - is quite sure he can trust.Heady, heartbroken and heartfelt, Low is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration - and, perhaps, epiphany.Jeet Thayil delights not just in pushing the bounds of possibility, but in smashing them to smithereens. John Burnside
