The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 542 pages and is available in paperback format. Suketu mehta, author and associate professor of journalism, new york university suketu mehta is the new yorkbased author of maximum city. Mehta is depressed by his beloved citys transformation, now swelled to 18 million and. The novel not only succeeds in exposing the citys dark underbelly but also takes us on a virtual tour through the citys varied tastes a. Nominated for the pulitzer prize for this work, suketu mehta presents a dramatic and gripping account of the realities of modern bombay from a variety of perspectives. Opinion a cloud still hangs over bhopal the new york times. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the. A powerful magnet to its vast hinterland of villages. Suketu mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in new york. 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. Sponsored by audi urban future initiative new museum. Published nearly a quarter century after midnights children, maximum city. Maximum city is new yorkbased writer suketu mehtas vast and occasionally riveting recounting of his return to the home of his youth, bombay. It was published in hardcover by random houses alfred a.
He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival muslim and hindu gangs. A native of bombay, suketu mehta gives us an insiders view of this stunning metropolis. Glimmers of hope for bombay in suketu mehtas maximum city. 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. New yorkbased writer suketu mehta recaptures a global stage for bombay in much the same, powerful way. Suketu mehta has written a burning indictment of antiimmigrant hypocrisy, and an affirmation of hope in the real americathe america where we treat each other as human beings with a common future, and not a faceless problem to be solved by walls and barbed wire. Join facebook to connect with suketu mehta and others you may know. Henry prize, and a new york foundation for the arts. Nearly halfway into maximum city, suketu mehta fetches up at that inimitable bombay institution, the. When suketu mehta, essayist and author of the acclaimed book maximum city. You might have bought maximum city thinking you would get a comprehensive idea on how bombay works.
Maximum city suketu mehta mehta casts far and wide in this metropolis of tens of millions and comes up with some of the most remarkable characters i have met in literature, fiction and non, for a very long time, and tells their stories with awesome skill and verve. It is a story about the wonders, the challenges, and the promise of the highly populated city of bombay, india also called mumbai. Suketu mehta, author of maximum city one of the best novels to have come out of india in recent decades. Bombay lost and found by suketu mehta, knopf, 560 pages. In response to suketu mehta and his violent favelas of. I have been reading this book for last two weeks and it is the longest i have taken to read any book so far. He penned down his experiences in mumbai in his incredible work maximum city, published in 2004, and a pulitzer prize finalist in 2005. Maximum city by suketu mehta overdrive rakuten overdrive. A billion squatters, a new urban world srinivas, smriti. After all, suketu mehtas book maximum city 2004, which itself redraws the line between.
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Bombay lost and found is a narrative nonfiction book by suketu mehta, published in 2004, about the indian city of mumbai also known as bombay. Fantastic how all the characters portrayed all meld into their respective places in the maximum of cities. Seeing the divine image in india 3rd edtn 1998 william dalrymple, city of djinns. Henry prize and a new york foundation for the arts fellowship for his fiction. Suketu mehta is the new yorkbased author of maximum city. Subsequently, in his infamous satanic verses, bombays film world was immortalized. Militancy, 2010, suketu mehta maximum city, 2005, and su tong raise the red lantern, 2004. A year in the life of juvenile court by edward humes not for sale by david batstone prostitution, trafficking and traumatic stress by melissa farley sex trafficking. Pdf is not rendering correctly, you can download the pdf file here. Bombay lost and found and is working on a book about new york.
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Bombay lost and foundwhich won the kiriyama prize and the hutch crossword book award, and was a finalist for the 2005 pulitzer prize, the lettre ulysses prize, the bbc four samuel. 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. Suketu mehta, associate professor, department of journalism, new york university, and author, maximum. 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.
Bombay lost and found, by new yorkbased writer suketu mehta recaptures a global stage for bombay in much the. Bangalores twentieth century patel, sujata and jim masselos. Mehtas work has been published in the new york times magazine, granta, harpers, time. Urbs prima in indis reads the plaque outside the gateway of india. The first edition of the novel was published in 2004, and was written by suketu mehta. The main characters of this cultural, india story are. The government approved a mckinseydrafted document titled vision mumbai, which aims to turn mumbai into a worldclass city 1 newspaper essay suketu mehta, associate professor, department of journalism, new york university, and author, maximum. The citys planners have their eyes set firmly on shanghai, as a model for mumbai. There will soon be more people living in the city of bombay than on the continent of australia. Newsweek is promoting suketu mehtas short piece on new york as a celebration of the role of immigrants in the citys revival. Suketu mehta a brilliantly illuminating portrait of bombay and its peoplea book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itselffrom an awardwinning indianamerican fiction writer and journalist. Like this prince, suketu mehta takes us on a tour of the mumbai underworld to meet people whom you may not encounter in your daily life.
He takes what might be called a literary census of. His autobiographical account of his experiences in mumbai, maximum city, was published in 2004. Villages that recreate themselves in the city as slums. Bombay is the future of urban civilization on the planet.
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