Mumbai Noir

✍ Scribed by Altaf Tyrewala

• Publisher: Akashic Books
• Year: 2011;2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 222 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

"Tyrewala's insightful introduction greatly enhances the reading experience, and the glossary helps, too . . . The collection is astonishingly diverse . . . Tyrewala's anthology [offers] a sampling of brand-new authors and [a] superb introduction. It might provide a fictional contrast to Katherine Boo's Behind the Beautiful Forevers."
--Library Journal (Starred review)
"Most of the 14 short stories in Akashic's workmanlike Mumbai volume draw inspiration from the criminal networks and the sordid underbelly the city is infamous for . . . Armchair travelers will find plenty of amusement in touring the seedier parts of this island city in perfect safety."
--Publishers Weekly
"The fifteen contributors to Mumbai Noir . . . provide a cool composite narrative of a unique human-intensive metropolitan system, whose magnitude, complexity, diversity, and pace can hardly be captured in writing or, for that matter, any...