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Intimate exploration of Bombay's complex, dynamic life.

If you're drawn to understanding the soul of a city through its people and their intertwined stories, "Maximum City" by Suketu Mehta could be a great read for you. It'll take you deep into the fabric of Bombay, providing an insider's perspective that's as engaging as it is enlightening. This book acts like a multifaceted lens, capturing the spirit, struggles, and dreams of a metropolis that is at once alluring and overwhelming.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2005)
  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2005)
  • Ryszard Kapuściński Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2005)
  • Kiriyama Prize for Nonfiction (2005)
  • Crossword Book Award for Nonfiction (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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ISBN: 9780144001590
Authors: Suketu Mehta
Publisher: Penguin India
Date of Publication: 2006-05-13
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Travel, Sociology
Goodreads rating: 3.94
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The book combines elements of memoir, travel writing as well as socio-political analysis of the history and people of Mumbai. Mehta writes as a person who is at one level outsider to this magnificent city and on the other hand is the one who is born here and has lived his childhood in the city then known as Bombay. As a person who comes back with his experience of returning to the city as an adult, as well as a parent and resident. His family left Mumbai for the US in 1977, settling in the Jackson Heights, section of Queens, in New York City.
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Intimate exploration of Bombay's complex, dynamic life.

If you're drawn to understanding the soul of a city through its people and their intertwined stories, "Maximum City" by Suketu Mehta could be a great read for you. It'll take you deep into the fabric of Bombay, providing an insider's perspective that's as engaging as it is enlightening. This book acts like a multifaceted lens, capturing the spirit, struggles, and dreams of a metropolis that is at once alluring and overwhelming.

  • Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2005)
  • Guardian First Book Award Nominee (2005)
  • Ryszard Kapuściński Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2005)
  • Kiriyama Prize for Nonfiction (2005)
  • Crossword Book Award for Nonfiction (2005)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.