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-from an award-winning Indian-American fiction
writer and journalist.
A native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us a true insider's view of
this stunning city, bringing to his account a rare level of
insight, detail, and intimacy. He approaches the city from
unexpected angles-taking us into the criminal underworld of rival
Muslim and Hindu gangs who wrest control of the city'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 sidewalks-the
essential saga of a great city endlessly played out.
Through it all-as each individual story unfolds-we hear Mehta'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 Bombay-the world's largest city-is a harbinger of the vast
megalopolises that will redefine the very idea of "the city" in the
near future.
Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, "Maximum City is a
revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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