SynopsisA 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 everchanging world.
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About the author
Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York. For his fiction he has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Mehta?s work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper?s, Time, Cond? Nast Traveler, and the Village Voice, and has been featured on National Public Radio?s All Things Considered. Mehta also co-wrote the film Mission Kashmir. Maximum City has won the 2005 Kiriyama Prize for Non-fiction, was short-listed for the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Book Prize for Non-fiction 2005, and chosen as Book of the Year for 2004 by The Economist. Suketu Mehta was also a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize.