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After the critical and commercial success of Delhi Noir, part of New York’s award-winning Noir series, comes Mumbai Noir, which looks through a glass darkly at what is arguably India’s most fascinating city. The stories in Mumbai Noir depict the many ways in which the city’s ever-present shadowy aspects often force themselves onto the lives of ordinary people.
‘The city’s chroniclers – its novelists, essayists, poets, journalists, and film-makers – often seem overawed by the idea of Mumbai, rendering its quotidian realities in brushstrokes of grandiose narratives. What inoculates the stories in this collection from the hyperbole of ‘maximum city’ – that much-abused term coined by the astute Suketu Mehta to describe Mumbai – are the restraints set by the noir genre, which stipulates, among other things, an unflinching gaze at the underbelly, without recourse to sentimentality or forced denouements. When viewed from a plane (or hot-air balloon), any metropolis might strike one as jaw-dropping. For a majority of Mumbai’s residents, however, the city’s overcrowded public transportation and decaying infrastructure fail to provide even the minimum of relief ...’ –Altaf Tyrewala, from the introduction
ISBN - 9789350292259
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Pages : 288
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