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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Paperback)

by Suketu Mehta (Author)

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Paperback: 608 pages
Publisher: Headline Review; New Ed edition (5 Sep 2005)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0747259690
ISBN-13: 978-0747259695
Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 4.2 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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Publishers Weekly, July 19, 2004

'Mehta fills his kaleidoscopic portrait of "the biggest, fastest, richest city in India" with captivating moments of danger and dismay'

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Pick of the Week - 'If there's been a more striking snapshot of the changing face of Asia, I've never read it. With energy, wit and endless reserves of empathy, Maximum City leaves you desperate to see Bombay for yourself...'

(Sunday Times )

'... it is Mehta's enthusiastic and intrepid self at the centre of his narrative that lends his account its appeal and memorable poetic charge.'

(Observer )

'Mehta's extraordinary, and extraordinarily rich book, is both testimony and warning; a snapshot of a city full of vitality and hate.'

(The Telegraph )

'Combining an insider's knowledge with a visitor's detachment, he prises open the rotten underbelly of the city to expose an unforgettable picture of depravity, greed sectarian strife and corruption. This is a stupendous book'

(Mail on Sunday )

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4.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing and fascinating, 25 Oct 2005

By	Avidreader "hammonduk" (London, UK) - See all my reviews

I picked up this book at the airport in a rush ahving read some good reviews of it. It's a difficult book to catergorise: part-travelogue, part memoir, part politico-sociological study, but altogether more than that. It offers a fascinating insight into one of the world's largest, most vibrant and most chaotic cities. The author is an Indian who spend his early years in Bombay (Mumbai) and then his adolescence in New York. Having made a name for himself as a writer in America, he returned to Mumbai to write a book.

The first few chapters cover his culture shock and the difficulties of adjusting to India for someone from the US. Then he covers the politics, crime, pleasure and entertainment parts of Mumbai, always meeting an engrossing cast of characters and always allowing them to tell their own story. Some are hit-men, some are dancers/prostitutes, some policemen. He helps Bollywood producers with their scripts, chats to gang bosses, befriends a transvestite bar-dancer and meets corrupt and dangerous politicans.

It is no rosy-eyed view of the city, or India, and in parts the author's righteous indignation at the corruption in India is apparent, but for the ordinary people that make up his story he is amazingly non-judgemental, leaving it to the reader to decide.

My only criticism is that sometimes the author is a shade bumptious, a shade too self-satisfied, but it is rare and doesn't really spoil a marvellous book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Mumbai will never be the same again..., 9 May 2005

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This review is from: Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Hardcover)

Sukhetu Mehta's book Maximum City has continued to surprise me with its frank and startling probes into the dark heart of Mumbai. Politicans, gangsters, police, assassins, bar-line girls, prostitutes, the Filmi crowd and business men all have their stories told in Metha's un-self-conscious style. I have been a frequent vistor over the past few years but now Mumbai will never be the same to me or anyone who reads this book.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Ignore the whingers. This is a good book!, 10 Jan 2007

By	Robert Fenner (UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fell asleep reading it? Too long? Too self-indulgent? These people must have read the wrong book. Or the right book in the wrong way.

I thoroughly enjoyed it myself. The landscape of people is broad, unsentimental and nicely coloured: all human life is here. There is a degree of soul-searching, on the part not just of the author but of many of the people he meets, but this, I think, is a condition of being an Indian these days, and in particular, an Indian in such a weird and wild city as Bombay. Or Mumbai, if you prefer. (The author doesn't!)

I thoroughly recommend it - and you don't need to know much about the people, the place or the culture to enjoy it, you really don't.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Snapshot
Am trying how best to review this book and the one word that keeps coming to mind is 'snapshot' Mehta provides a vivid snapshot of Mumbai during the 2 years he spends there as an... Read more

Published 2 months ago by R. Mehta

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Insightful
This book was amazing. I felt like I was living in Mumbai whilst reading it, (and I've never been there before)! Read more

Published 8 months ago by Pardeep Deol

3.0 out of 5 stars a better title for the book would be "Bombay - The other side of the story"
I bought this book because the title intrigued me and it was a Pulitzer finalist and so I was expecting something perhaps special and comprehensive. Read more

Published 17 months ago by Ash

4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read,
This book certainly peels away the layers of what it is like to live in Bombay, a City like no other in the world. Read more

Published 21 months ago by Barry Donnan

4.0 out of 5 stars A Long & Bumpy Ride, But Well Worth It In The End
This is a great book that takes you through the highs and desperate lows of life in the world's busiest city. Read more

Published on 25 Jan 2007 by Tim Thornton

1.0 out of 5 stars A yawn a minute!
This book was recommended on a recent trip to India and I thought it was an appropriate book to read when we hit Mumbai. The book was a yawn a minute! Read more

Published on 18 Dec 2006 by B. Frieslander

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent travelogue, offers a glimpse into the real Bombay
This book is excellent in that it offers an insight into a city that many people will visit but will get nothing more then a superficial familiarity with the city,the shopping... Read more

Published on 5 May 2006 by N. Makwana

2.0 out of 5 stars Self-indulgent and far too long
I have struggled but in the end had to just skip out dozens of pages. I'm not really sure what the point of this book is. Read more

Published on 3 Mar 2006

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
This is an excellent book about a teeming city with many layers and the author has been able to identify and show us those layers in a readable, yet authoritative way. Read more

Published on 4 Jan 2006

4.0 out of 5 stars Eye Opening and Exciting
This is a fascinating read. The characters, although easy to loose in all the action at times, are intriguing and Mehta has made them very real to the reader. Read more

Published on 12 Dec 2005 by RFC

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