Written with love. Mumbai was always on my list of destinations - now even more. Brilliant character portaits and lifelines. Plenty of lessons in how to adapt to seeming chaos. Fantastic how all the characters portrayed all meld into their respective places in the maximum of cities. Wish I could read it for a first time again. Wish I could write like that. The author is also a mate of Vikhram Chandra, who wrote "Sacred Games" (among others). One of the best fiction books I've ever read. A real page turner - all 800 of them, and all the research backed up in real life by Maximum City. One of the characters of which was just recently executed after being found guilty for his role in the Mumbai bombings - something also forensically dissected in the book. Buy it, read it. Guaranteed you won't regret it. (Same applies to Sacred Games.)

Written with love. Mumbai was always on my list of destinations - now even more. Brilliant character portaits and lifelines. Plenty of lessons in how to adapt to seeming chaos. Fantastic how all the characters portrayed all meld into their respective places in the maximum of cities. Wish I could read it for a first time again. Wish I could write like that. The author is also a mate of Vikhram Chandra, who wrote "Sacred Games" (among others). One of the best fiction books I've ever read. A real page turner - all 800 of them, and all the research backed up in real life by Maximum City. One of the characters of which was just recently executed after being found guilty for his role in the Mumbai bombings - something also forensically dissected in the book. Buy it, read it. Guaranteed you won't regret it. (Same applies to Sacred Games.)

Written with love. Mumbai was always on my list of destinations - now even more. Brilliant character portaits and lifelines. Plenty of lessons in how to adapt to seeming chaos. Fantastic how all the characters portrayed all meld into their respective places in the maximum of cities. Wish I could read it for a first time again. Wish I could write like that. The author is also a mate of Vikhram Chandra, who wrote "Sacred Games" (among others). One of the best fiction books I've ever read. A real page turner - all 800 of them, and all the research backed up in real life by Maximum City. One of the characters of which was just recently executed after being found guilty for his role in the Mumbai bombings - something also forensically dissected in the book. Buy it, read it. Guaranteed you won't regret it. (Same applies to Sacred Games.)

A brilliant book with multiple personalities. Suketu Mehta himself morphs to reflect the person he speaks with -- whether a shooter, a bar dancer or a powerful movie producer and director. Clear prose detailed descriptions and character profiles that unearth the psychology of people living in a parallel universe, bring a city more complex than any other on earth (it seems) to raging and sometimes frightening life. This is the kind of book that can be read at least a dozen times -- and you will discover and re-discover multiple new things each time you do so.

A brilliant book with multiple personalities. Suketu Mehta himself morphs to reflect the person he speaks with -- whether a shooter, a bar dancer or a powerful movie producer and director. Clear prose detailed descriptions and character profiles that unearth the psychology of people living in a parallel universe, bring a city more complex than any other on earth (it seems) to raging and sometimes frightening life. This is the kind of book that can be read at least a dozen times -- and you will discover and re-discover multiple new things each time you do so.