Maximum City av Suketu Mehta

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<p><b>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'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br>Bombay''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.<br><br>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.<br><br>Part memoir, part journalism, part travelogue, and written with the relentless observation and patience of a novelist, <i>Maximum City</i> is a brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people - a book as v