Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Mehta, Suketu

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375703409)

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Format: Paperback
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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Mehta, Suketu

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

$18.00
Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found by Mehta, Suketu

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider's view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks.

As each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.

Author: Suketu Mehta
ISBN-10: 0375703403
ISBN-13: 9780375703409
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 09/27/2005
Pages: 560
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.20w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Ingram Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 87
New York Times 10/09/2005 pg. 28
By Suketu Mehta
By Suketu Mehta
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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. Mehta's other work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper's magazine, Time, Condé Nast Traveler, and The Village Voice, and has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Mehta also cowrote Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie.

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