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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publish Date: Sep 27th, 2005
- Pages: 560
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.20in - 1.10in - 0.90lb
- EAN: 9780375703409
- Categories: • Essays & Travelogues• Asia - India & South Asia
About the Author
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What people are saying
We publish stories, essays, poems and images with a modern sense of place. Based @AmherstCollege. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner.
@suketumehta will be joining us for our last spring masterclass! An acclaimed author with experience in describing urban environments through his book, MAXIMUM CITY: BOMBAY LOST AND FOUND, this nonfiction class is a great opportunity you shouldn’t miss! https://www.thecommononline.org/craft-masterclasses-fiction-nonfiction-poetry-translation/
India’s finest magazine of politics and culture. Hindi magazine: https://t.co/QdFgOOwCWR | @thecaravanhindi Follow us on Instagram: https://t.co/4OaMOqjERM
Unlike Suketu Mehta’s “Maximum City,” or Jerry Pinto’s “Em and the Big Hoom,” Jayanth Kaikini attempts to sprawl through various different mindsets and communities which call Mumbai home. @WeltgeistKiran writes: https://t.co/zxUqo2y7WW
#UrbanAge: A global investigation into the future of #cities organised by @LSECities & @AHG_Berlin.
Writer, critic & urbanist @suketumehta will be speaking at the next of the #UrbanAgeDebates. Suketu is the author of ‘Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found’, winner of the Kiriyama Prize, his work explores how cities sustain diverse urban communities. ✍️https://t.co/CvjZbPBhIJ https://t.co/NwG9TqkIh9
Praise for this book
"Narrative reporting at its finest, probably the best work of nonfiction to come out of India in recent years. . . . Mehta succeeds so brilliantly in taking the pulse of this riotous urban jungle." -The New York Times Book Review
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.
"What Dickens did for London, what Joseph Mitchell did for New York City, Suketu Mehta has done for Bombay. . . . A candid, extensive, and wholly entertaining portrait." -San Diego Union-Tribune
"The ultimate insider's view of Bombay, a roiling and vigorous account that delivers on a seemingly impossible challenge: how to limn the diversity and sprawl of such a place in a single book." -The Seattle Times
What people are saying
We publish stories, essays, poems and images with a modern sense of place. Based @AmherstCollege. Whiting Literary Magazine Prize winner.
@suketumehta will be joining us for our last spring masterclass! An acclaimed author with experience in describing urban environments through his book, MAXIMUM CITY: BOMBAY LOST AND FOUND, this nonfiction class is a great opportunity you shouldn’t miss! https://www.thecommononline.org/craft-masterclasses-fiction-nonfiction-poetry-translation/
India’s finest magazine of politics and culture. Hindi magazine: https://t.co/QdFgOOwCWR | @thecaravanhindi Follow us on Instagram: https://t.co/4OaMOqjERM
Unlike Suketu Mehta’s “Maximum City,” or Jerry Pinto’s “Em and the Big Hoom,” Jayanth Kaikini attempts to sprawl through various different mindsets and communities which call Mumbai home. @WeltgeistKiran writes: https://t.co/zxUqo2y7WW