num_pages: 595
description: An international bestseller upon publication, MAXIMUM CITY was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study of the metropolis of Bombay. 'If there's been a more striking snapshot of the changing face of Asia, I've never read it' Sunday TimesBombay's story is told through the lives, often desperately near the edge, of some of the people who live there. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars and politicians - Suketu looked at the city through their eyes.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, and in looking through the eyes of his found the city within himself.Part memoir, part journalism, part travelogue, and written with the relentless observation and patience of a novelist, Maximum City is a brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people - a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself.
language: English
title: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
titlecomplete: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found
genres: Cultural, Indian Literature, Asia, Cities, Memoir, Nonfiction, India, Travel, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 10885
places: Bombay
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Pulitzer Prize
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 1293868800000
name: Ryszard Kapuściński Prize, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Kiriyama Prize
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Crossword Book Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Headline Review