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REVIEW OF MAXIMUM CITY: Bombay Lost and Found from Desert Morning News
Suketu Mehta, a journalist and fiction writer from Bombay, "the biggest city on the planet" with 14 million people, left the city in 1977.
In preparation for this book, subtitled "Bombay Lost and Found," Mehta went back to see how things had changed.
He examines the city in unusual ways -- looking at the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs; a bar dancer who chose the only life available to her after a childhood of poverty; delving into the stories of people who leave the villages for life in the city. He tells numerous stories of the diverse people who live in severe congestion.
Mehta writes very well. He personalizes the city by infusing his own story into the narrative -- this could very well become the classic story of Bombay, which the author sees as the megalopolis of the future.
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