Maximum City Bombay Lost And Found

Author: Suketu Mehta

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  • : 29.99 NZD
  • : 9780747259695
  • : Headline Publishing Group
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  • : October 2005
  • : 196mm X 131mm X 39mm
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Barcode 9780747259695
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Description

Bombay's story is told through the lives, often desperately near the edge, of some of the people who live there. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians - Suketu looked at the city through their eyes. The complex texture of these extraordinary tales is threaded together by Suketu Mehta's own history of growing up in Bombay and returning to live there after a 21-year absence, and in looking through the eyes of his found the city within himself. Part memoir, part journalism, part travelogue, and written with the relentless observation and patience of a novelist, Maximum City is a brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people -- a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself.

Awards

Winner of Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize - Non-Fiction 2005. Shortlisted for Guardian First Book Award 2005 and Samuel Johnson Prize 2005.

Author description

Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O.Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper's Magazine, Time and Conde Nast Traveler. Mehta also co-wrote Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie.