Maximum City:
Bombay Lost and Found
by Suketu Mehta

Alfred A. Knopf, USA
ISBN: 0375403728
Penguin Books, India
ISBN: 0670049212
Review/Hodder Headline, UK
ISBN: 0747221596

Mehta gives us an insider's view of his "hometown" of Bombay. To put a human face on the world's third largest city, Mehta employs a series of interviews with some of its citizens - gangsters, cops, and victims, the rich, Bollywood entertainers, and prostitutes alike. His deft narrative, as a review in The Nation said, "carries the full burden of his interlocutors' details and circumstances," resulting in a surprisingly empathetic and fascinating group portrait. (Alfred A. Knopf, USA; Penguin Books, India; Review, UK)

Suketu Mehta

Suketu Mehta is a fiction writer and journalist based in New York. He has won the Whiting Writers Award, the O. Henry Prize, and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta's work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Granta, Harper's magazine, Time, Condé Nast Traveler, and The Village Voice, and has been featured on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. Mehta also cowrote Mission Kashmir, a Bollywood movie.

Mehta was born in Calcutta and raised in Bombay and New York. He is a graduate of New York University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

He is currently writing an original screenplay for 'The Goddess,' a Merchant-Ivory film starring Tina Turner.