Maximum City: Bombay Lost And Found [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Mehta, Suketu

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ISBN 10: 0375703403 ISBN 13: 9780375703409

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2005

Riassunto

A multifaceted portrait of Bombay, India, and its people offers an insider's study of the city, chronicling the everday life of the city and its inhabitants, from the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs to the inner sanctums of India's film industry to the diverse people who come from the villages in search of better life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Stunning. . . . A powerful, arresting work. . . . Marvelous.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review

“Narrative reporting at its finest, probably the best work of nonfiction to come out of India in recent years. . . . Mehta succeeds so brilliantly in taking the pulse of this riotous urban jungle.” –The New York Times Book Review

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 ever-changing world.

“What Dickens did for London, what Joseph Mitchell did for New York City, Suketu Mehta has done for Bombay. . . . A candid, extensive, and wholly entertaining portrait.” –San Diego Union-Tribune

“The ultimate insider’s view of Bombay, a roiling and vigorous account that delivers on a seemingly impossible challenge: how to limn the diversity and sprawl of such a place in a single book.” –The Seattle Times

L'autore:

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. Mehta’s other work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper’s magazine, Time, Condé Nast Traveler, and The Village Voice, and has been featured on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. Mehta also cowrote Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0375703403
• ISBN 13: 9780375703409
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 560