Maximum City - Bombay Lost and Found

Bombay's story, told through the lives, often desperately near the edge, of some of the people who live there. The complex texture of these extraordinary tales is threaded together by Suketu Mehta's own history of growing up in Bombay and returning to live there after a 21-year absence. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians - Suketu loooked at the city through their eyes, and in looking found the city within himself.

About the author

Suketu Mehta, 1963 geboren in Kalkutta, aufgewachsen in Bombay, studierte an der New York University und lebt heute als freier Autor in New York. Regelmäßige Veröffentlichungen im New York Times Magazine , in Granta , Harper's , Time u.a.m. Für seine schriftstellerische Arbeit wurde er mehrfach ausgezeichnet.

Report

And now Bombay gets its Boswell, his chronicle as sprawling and enchanting as his subject India Today

Product details

• Authors: Suketu Mehta
• Publisher: Headline
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.09.2004
• EAN: 9780755301508
• ISBN: 978-0-7553-0150-8
• No. of pages: 498
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 233 mm x 38 mm
• Subject: Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales