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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found Condition:Like New Making Sense of Japanese isAn international bestseller upon publication, Maximum City was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and remains a classic study of the metropolis of Bombay. Bombay's story is told through the lives, often desperately near the edge, of some of the people who live there. Hitmen, dancing girls, cops, movie stars, poets, beggars, and politicians Suketu looked at the city through their eyes. The complex texture of these extraordinary tales is threaded