Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

A brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its peopleâ€“a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itselfâ€“from an award-winning Indian-American fiction writer and journalist.

A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us a true insiderâ€™s view of this stunning city, bringing to his account a rare level of insight, detail, and intimacy. He approaches the city from unexpected anglesâ€“taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs who wrest control of the cityâ€™s byzantine political and commercial systems . . . following the life of a bar dancer who chose the only life available to her after a childhood of poverty and abuse . . . opening the doors onto the fantastic, hierarchical inner sanctums of Bollywood . . . delving into the stories of the countless people who come from the villages in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalksâ€“the essential saga of a great city endlessly played out.

Through it allâ€“as each individual story unfoldsâ€“we hear Mehtaâ€™s own story: of the mixture of love, frustration, fascination, and intense identification he feels for and with Bombay, as he tries to find home again after twenty-one years abroad. And he makes clear that Bombayâ€“the worldâ€™s largest cityâ€“is a harbinger of the vast megalopolises that will redefine the very idea of â€œthe cityâ€ in the near future.

Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2004-09-21
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780375403729

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2004-09-21
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780375403729

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

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