![]() ![]() 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. Read more 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. Maximum city: Bombay lost and found Suketu Mehta Penguin Books India, 2006 - Bombay (India) - 581 pages 10 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when. The complex texture of these extraordinary tales is threaded together by Suketu. ![]() Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians - Suketu looked at the city through their eyes. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians - Suketu looked at the city through their eyes. 'If there's been a more striking snapshot of the changing face of Asia, I've never read it' Sunday Times Bombay's story is told through the lives, often desperately near the edge, of some of the people who live there. An international bestseller upon publication, MAXIMUM CITY was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study of the metropolis of Bombay. A wonderfully evocative, superbly written and highly acclaimed account of the world's first megalopolis. Description for Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Paperback. ![]()
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