Mumbai Noir
By (Author) Altaf Tyrewala
Akashic Books,U.S.
Akashic Books,U.S.
19th April 2012
United States
General
Fiction
823.08720808914
Paperback
288
Width 133mm, Height 210mm
280g
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.