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Maximum City
ISBN 0755301501 Headline RRP$39.95
Release November 2004
Suketu Mehta draws us into the multi-faceted world of Bombay with the skill of a novelist in Maximum City. Powerful, brilliantly written, often disturbing, this book is a major work on one of the world’s great cities—a city that is home to more people than the entire continent of Australia.
Suketu Mehta’s quest is to the very heart of this city, the home he left as a child, as he discovers what it means to return. Part memoir, part journalism, part travelogue, and written with the relentless observation and patience of a novelist, it is a riveting portrait of men and women in the megalopolis, and a guide to the future of ‘the city’ itself.
Maximum City will be published worldwide, starting with a Bollywood launch in India which will attract international attention.
Author Info
Suketu Mehta was born in Calcutta in 1963 and now lives and works in New York. As a writer and journalist he has received high praise and many awards including the Whiting Writers’ Award, the O. Henry Prize for ficiton, a New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in fiction, and a SAJA Journalism Award.