Maximum City is a vibrant, exotic and thrilling portrait of Mumbai, the world’s largest city, told from a number of perspectives; through interviews with a kaleidoscope of characters, and through the author’s own journeys, recollections and experiences. Author Suketu Mehta, raised in Mumbai, is a celebrated and seasoned journalist; “Maximum City” is his first book, the product of 7 years of research.Part memoir, part journalism, part travelogue, and written with the relentless observation and patience of a novelist, Maximum City is a brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people - a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself.