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Mumbai Noir

By Altaf Tyrewala

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About the book

After the critical and commercial success of Delhi Noir, part of New York’s award-winning noir series, comes Mumbai Noir, which looks through a glass darkly at what is arguably India’s most fascinating city. The stories in Mumbai Noir depict the many ways in which the city’s ever-present shadowy aspects often force themselves onto the lives of ordinary people.  The city’s chroniclers-ts novelists, essayists, poets, journalists, and filmmakers-often seem overawed by the idea of Mumbai, rendering its quotidian realities in brushstrokes of grandiose narratives. What inoculates the stories in this collection from the hyperbole of maximum city”-that much-abused term coined by the astute Suketu Mehta to describe Mumbai-are the restraints set by the noir genre, which stipulates, among other things, an unflinching gaze at the underbelly, without recourse to sentimentality or forced denouements. When viewed from a plane (or hot-air balloon), any metropolis might strike one as jaw-dropping. For a majority of Mumbai’s residents, however, the city’s overcrowded public transportation and decaying infrastructure fail to provide even the minimum of relief …”

Pages: 280

Available in: Paperback

Language: English

Altaf Tyrewala

Altaf Tyrewala is the author of the critically acclaimed books No God in Sight and Engglishhh: Fictional Dispatches from a Hyperreal Nation. He is also the editor of the crime-fiction collection Mumbai Noir. Altaf’s works have been published and anthologized around the world. He was awarded the 2011 DAAD Artist-in- Berlin literature grant. He lives in Mumbai with his family and works in the e-learning industry.

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