[Reader-list] Re: reader-list Digest, Vol 14, Issue 25

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>  " It's the best book yet written about that great, ruined
> metropolis, my city as well as his, and it deserves to be very widely
> read."
>  - Salman Rushdie
> 
> 
>  Time Out Mumbai invites you to a reading and discussion with Suketu
> Mehta - author of the highly acclaimed 'Maximum City - Bombay Lost and
> Found'.
> 
>  Date: 21st September 2004
>  Venue: National Gallery of Modern Art Auditorium
>                     Opposite Prince of Wales Museum, Colaba
>  Time: 7: 00 p.m.
>  Entry: Free. If you wish to reserve a seat please call the Time Out
> hotline on 022 56601200
> 
> 
> 
>  'A gripping, compellingly readable account of a love affair with a
> city: I couldn't put it down.' - Amitav Ghosh
>  
>  'Maximum City is the remarkable debut of a major new Indian writer.
> Humane and moving, sympathetic but outspoken, it's a shocking and
> sometimes heartbreaking book, teeming with extraordinary stories.' -
> William Dalrymple
> 
>  "The book is part urban history, part nightmare, part memoir, almost
> all stunningly written." 
>  - Sreenivasan Jain in Time Out Mumbai
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found  
>  By Suketu Mehta 
> 
>  Suketu Mehta left Bombay at the age of 14. Twenty-one years later,
> having lived in Paris, London and New York's East Village, he returned to
> rediscover the only city he calls his own. The result is this stunning,
> brilliantly illuminating portrait of the megalopolis and its people-a
> book, seven years in the making, that is as vast, as diverse, as rich in
> experience, incident and sensation as the city itself.
>  
>  Mehta approaches the life and lives of Bombay from unexpected
> angles. He takes us into the underworld where Muslim and Hindu gangs
> manage to wrest some control of the Byzantine political and commercial
> systems of the city. He follows the life of a bar dancer, whose childhood
> of poverty and abuse left her no choice but the one she made. He journeys
> on the famed local trains and out onto the streets and footpaths, where
> the essential story of Bombay is played out every day by the countless
> migrants who come in search of a better life. He opens windows into the
> inner sanctums of Bollywood and the alternative universe at its fringes.
> And through it all-as each individual story unfolds-we hear Mehta's own
> story: of the mixture of love, frustration, fascination, and intense
> identification he feels for and with Bombay.
>  Candid, impassioned, insightful, both surprisingly funny and
> heart-rending, Maximum City is a revelation of a complex and ever-changing
> world: the continent of Bombay.
> 
>  Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York.
> His work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, Granta,
> Harper's, Time, Condé Nast Traveler, The Indian Express, Man's World,
> Himal and India Magazine.


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