Last man in tower
By: Aravind Adiga
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9781848875166; 9781848875173
Subjects: Apartment dwellers; Apartment houses; Real estate developers; Social conflict; Fiction
Description: Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But Bombay has changed in half a century - not least its name - and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city ...
Table of contents: title: Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building; title: and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society; title: Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society; title: and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But Bombay has changed in half a century; title: not least its name; title: and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city ...