Booker-shortlisted author's new book

Jeet Thayil's third novel sets 'Low' published by Faber & Faber and distributed by Penguin Random House is set for release shortly.

This is the third novel from Jeet Thayil, the author of the prize-winning, bestselling 'Narcopolis' and rave-reviewed 'Book of Chocolate Saints'.

Low is a blazing joyride through the darklands of grief towards obliteration - and, perhaps, epiphany, say the publishers.

This is the story of Dominic Ullis, who, following the death of his wife, escapes to Bombay and so begins a glorious weekend of misadventure.

Jeet Thayil's debut novel, 'Narcopolis', which won the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Man Asian Literary Prize.

His second novel, 'The Book of Chocolate Saints', was longlisted for the DSC Prize and described as 'easily the most original and formally inventive novel to come out of India in years' by Salman Rushdie.

Thayil's five poetry collections include These Errors Are Correct, which won the 2013 Sahitya Akademi Award (India's National Academy of Letters) and he is also the editor of The Bloodaxe Book of Contemporary Indian Poets.