Mumbai Noir
ISBN-13: 9781617750274
Author(s): Altaf Tyrewala
Subjects: FF, FGC
Publisher: Akashic Books
Publisher Imprint: Akashic Books
Publication Date: 19-04-2012
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£14.99
About the book
Following the Bombay Communal Riots of 1992 which saw neighbour pitched against neighbour in fierce bouts of internecine violence, came the retaliatory bomb blasts of 1993 and the name change to Mumbai in 1995. Mumbai Noir captures the essence of a city dominated by wealth and the lack of it, where the shadowy aspects of life are never far from the ordinary person. Psychopath Romeos stalk ordinary women, men flirt with death in dance bars and families fall through the cracks of communal living in this phenomenal collection of noir literature.