Bombay lost and found, which was a finalist for the pulitzer prize, and won the kiriyama prize and the hutch crossword award. He sets out to piece together the puzzle of the city, covering everything from its ubiquitous slums to the eversoglamorous bollywood to its burgeoning underworld. His book maximum city won the kiriyama prize and the hutch crossword award, and was a finalist for the 2005 pulitzer prize, the lettre ulysses. Suketu has interviewed all sorts of people and transferred their accounts into this narrative. 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. Bombay lost and found and is working on a book about new york. A portrait of bombay, india, and its people chronicles the everyday life of the city and its inhabitants, from the criminal underworld of rival muslim and hindu gangs to the diverse people who come from the villages in search of a better life. Suketu mehta author suketu mehta is a new yorkbased author and an associate professor of journalism at new york university. What begins as a journey that mixes just the right amount of humor, anger and bewilderment at the state of our nation, ends up with a surprising doubleshot of hope. There will soon be more people living in the city of bombay than on the continent of australia.
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. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Sign up or sign in to see availability for your saved libraries at a glance. The authors account of the downside of the post1991 free market economy and the pursuit of selfinterest above all serves as a cautionary tale, doing for delhi what suketu mehta s maximum city accomplished for mumbai. It is also the urbs prima in mundis, at least in one area, the first test of the vitality of a city. See more ideas about books, books to read and good books. Kindle ebooks can be read on any device with the free kindle app. To ask other readers questions about maximum city, please sign up. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians suketu looked at the city through their eyes, and in looking found the city. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, maximum city is a revelation of an ancient and everchanging world. Bombay lost and found, which won the kiriyama prize and the hutch crossword award, and was a finalist for the 2005 pulitzer prize, the lettre ulysses prize, the bbc4 samuel johnson prize, and the guardian first book award.
A candid, extensive, and wholly entertaining portrait. When suketu mehta returned to bombay, the city of his youth, he was confounded by the teeming, filthy, and yet sometimes alluringly exotic metropolis before him and captured this encounter in an arresting account, maximum city. Suketu mehta books list of books by author suketu mehta. Mehta is depressed by his beloved citys transformation, now swelled to 18 million and. As he searched for evidence of kali yug, the age of darkness predicted by an ancient hindu cosmology in a final epoch of strife and corruption, dalrymple encountered. Sociology, description and travel, travel, nonfiction. Suketu mehta is one of our finest thinkers and writers on the subject of immigration. 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.
A native of bombay, suketu mehta gives us an insiders view of this stunning metropolis. Maximum city by suketu mehta overdrive rakuten overdrive. An impassioned defence of global immigration from the acclaimed author of maximum city. A portrait of bombay, india, and its people chronicles the everyday life of the city and its inhabitants, from the criminal underworld of rival muslim and hindu gangs to the diverse people who come from the villages in. Urbs prima in indis reads the plaque outside the gateway of india. Fiction sa shan the girl who played go nonfiction inga clendinnen. Bombay lost and found new ed by mehta, suketu isbn. Ebook readable online or download on pdf djvu txt doc mp3 cfm mobi and more formats for pc pda mac ipad iphone nook kindle android tablets mobile phone and more devices. When released in paperback, it was published by vintage, a subdivision of random house. Easily the most intimate account of india that ive read, and of value to anybody that believes in love and marriage. It was published in hardcover by random houses alfred a. He has won a guggenheim fellowship, the whiting writers award, and an o.
Pulitzer finalist suketu mehta burst into bestof lists last year with his groundbreaking this land is our land. Bombay lost and found by suketu mehta in maximum city, mehta returns to mumbai, the city where he grew up as a child, only to find himself mystified by its everincreasing chaos and volatility. Open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Drawing on his familys own experience emigrating from india to britain and america, and years of reporting around the world, suketu mehta subjects the worldwide antiimmigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. Suketu mehta is the new yorkbased author of maximum city. What dickens did for london, what joseph mitchell did for new york city, suketu mehta has done for bombay. His autobiographical account of his experiences in mumbai, maximum city, was published in 2004. It is a story about the wonders, the challenges, and the promise of the highly populated city of bombay, india also called mumbai. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival muslim and hindu gangs. The result is this stunning, brilliantly illuminating portrait of the megalopolis and its people a book that is as. His work has been published in the new yorker, the new york times magazine, national geographic, granta, harpers, time, and gq.
This book is highly recommended for anyone looking for background information on delhithe authors account of the downside of the post1991 free market economy and the pursuit of selfinterest above all serves as a cautionary tale, doing for delhi what suketu mehtas maximum city. A native of bombay, suketu mehta gives us an insiders view of this s. This land is our land wellington city libraries overdrive. Suketu mehta, author of maximum city this remarkable debut is so deeply reported, elegantly written, and profoundly transporting that it reads like a novel you cant put down. Bombay lost and found by suketu mehta and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. If suketu mehta were to publish just this one book, it would still be worth a lifetimes work. Pulitzer prizefinalist mehta the secret life of cities displays his. In the early morning hours of december 3rd, 25 years ago, a poisonous gas leaked from a union carbide plant and crept over the city of bhopal and within hours had taken a few thousand lives.
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