Maximum City [Lingua Inglese]: Bombay Lost and Found - Rilegato

Mehta, Suketu

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ISBN 10: 0747221596 ISBN 13: 9780747221593

Casa editrice: Headline Review, 2005

Riassunto

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 looked at the city through their eyes, and in looking found the city within himself.

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Recensione:

...unquestionably one of the most memorable non-fiction books to come out of India for many years, and there is little question that it will become the classic study of Bombay.' (William Dalrymple)

'Mehta delivers a fresh and mesmerising look at contemporary Bombay.' Buzz! (Buzz!)

'In Suketu Mehta [Bombay] has found a biographer fully worthy of its vitality, its monstrousness and its Byzantine complexity. Destined to become a classic of its kind...like the best of novels, it transcends geographical and historical particularities to become a startlingly life-affirming portrait of humanity itself.' Daily Mail 08/04/2005 (Daily Mail)

MAXIMUM CITY is part nightmare and part millennial hallucination... Suketu Mehta has taken travel writing to an entirely new level. This is a gripping, compellingly readable account of a love affair with a city: I couldn't put it down (Amitav Ghosh)

one of the best books to travel to India with. (Observer)

Reveals stories of exceptional depth and interest... a substantial achievement (The Sunday Times (Patrick French))

Mehta's tales... read like a modern Arabian Nights, only crueller, more poignant, more real... MAXIMUM CITY is a tour de force (The Times)

Suketu Mehta writes ... with the observant eye of a journalist and the colour and energy of a novelist... He takes his time and he does it brilliantly. No one will try to write another portrait of Bombay for a very long time (Hampstead & Highgate Express)

Compulsively readable... the best non-fiction book on India in a couple of decades (FT magazine)

Reveals a melting pot of punchy, tangible characters... a gripping portrait of life in the hopeful city that hits you like the first burning blast of India's air (Observer)

Descrizione del libro:

Powerful, brilliantly written, often disturbing, MAXIMUM CITY is a major work on one of the world's great cities. It will have world-wide impact

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• Editore: Headline Review
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0747221596
• ISBN 13: 9780747221593
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 512