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 everpresent shadowy aspects often force themselves onto the lives of ordinary people.
‘The city’s chroniclersits novelists, essayists, poets, journalists, and ...
Fast-paced and innovative, No God in Sight unfolds through first-person accounts of an unusual cast of characters: an abortionist, a convert, a pregnant refugee, a gangster in hiding, a butcher and an apathetic CEO, among others. From monologue to short story to anecdote, the reader is hurled without pause from one life and perspective to another: a family flees religious persecution in their village to take refuge in an urban slum, women walk the tightrope of ...