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Snap Judgment: Maximum City by Suketu
Mehta
By
Shailaja Neelakantan/NEW DELHI
Issue
cover-dated November 1, 2005
Readers in the know have awaited this
nonfiction paean to Mumbai, India's financial and film capital,
since Mehta signed a two-book contract with Knopf in 1999. But
they may be disappointed by his first full-length work.
The winner of the Whiting Writers' Award and O. Henry Prize
has written a well-researched but unsurprising account of what
he considers Mumbai's eccentricities. But his self-centered,
sometimes sanctimonious writing grows tiresome. Those looking
for Mumbai's Dickens would do better to explore Salman Rushdie
or Rohinton Mistry.
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