Suketu Mehta (Author of Maximum City)

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Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, Maximum City, was published in 2004. The book, based on two and a half years of research, explores the underbelly of the city.
He has won a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for his fiction. Mehta鈥檚 work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper鈥檚, Time, Newsweek, The New York Review of Books and Scroll.in, and has been featured on NPR鈥檚 ...more

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	Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found 3.94 avg rating — 11,155 ratings — published 2004 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant鈥檚 Manifesto 4.13 avg rating — 1,698 ratings — published 2019 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Baumgartner's Bombay by Anita Desai, Suketu Mehta (Introduction) 3.51 avg rating — 977 ratings — published 1989 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La vida secreta de las ciudades 3.53 avg rating — 91 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What is Remembered 2.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Elsewhere: There by Alan Bissett, Amy Bloom, David Vann (欧宝娱乐 Author) 3.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Frank Gohlke & Joel Sternfeld: Landscape as Longing by Frank Gohlke (Photographer), Joel Sternfeld (Text), Suketu Mehta (Text) 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Betsy Karel: Bombay Jadoo by Suketu Mehta, Ardashir Vakil, Betsy Karel (Photographer) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bombay Mix: Street Photographs by Ketaki Sheth, Suketu Mehta 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“And at the moment of contact, they do not know if the hand that is reaching for theirs belongs to a Hindu or Muslim or Christian or Brahmin or untouchable or whether you were born in this city or arrived only this morning or whether you live in Malabar Hill or New York or Jogeshwari; whether you鈥檙e from Bombay or Mumbai or New York. All they know is that you鈥檙e trying to get to the city of gold, and that鈥檚 enough. Come on board, they say. We鈥檒l adjust.”
― Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

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“It was when I realised I had a new nationality: I was in exile. I am an adulterous resident: when I am in one city, I am dreaming of the other. I am an exile; citizen of the country of longing.”
― Suketu Mehta

tags: exile, expats, nationality

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“A city like Bombay, like New York, that is a recent creation on the planet and does not have a substantial indigenous population, is full of restless people. Those who have come here have not been at ease somewhere else. And unlike others who may have been equally uncomfortable wherever they came from, these people got up and moved. As I have discovered, having once moved, it is difficult to stop moving.”
― Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

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Three Women

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7 votes, 16.3%

Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague

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6 votes, 14.0%

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by Michael McCreary

4 votes, 9.3%

The Prison Doctor

by Amanda Brown

3 votes, 7.0%

Dead Mountain: The Untold True Story of the Dyatlov Pass Incident

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2 votes, 4.7%

This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant鈥檚 Manifesto

by Suketu Mehta

1 vote, 2.3%

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