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Maximum City
Suketu Mehta
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Description for Maximum City
Paperback. A wonderfully evocative, superbly written and highly acclaimed account of the world's first megalopolis. Num Pages: 608 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FKA; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 39. Weight in Grams: 414.
An international bestseller upon publication, MAXIMUM CITY was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study of the metropolis of Bombay. '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. 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 ... Read more
An international bestseller upon publication, MAXIMUM CITY was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study of the metropolis of Bombay. '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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
415g
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747259695
SKU
V9780747259695
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99-10
About Suketu Mehta
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Maximum City
'Combining an insider's knowledge with a visitor's detachment, he prises open the rotten underbelly of the city to expose an unforgettable picture of depravity, greed sectarian strife and corruption. This is a stupendous book'
Mail on Sunday
'Mehta's extraordinary, and extraordinarily rich book, is both testimony and warning; a snapshot of a city full of vitality and hate.' ... Read more
Mail on Sunday
'Mehta's extraordinary, and extraordinarily rich book, is both testimony and warning; a snapshot of a city full of vitality and hate.' ... Read more