{"title":"Suketu Mehta","description":"Suketu Mehta is the author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award. His work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Granta, Harper's, Time, and GQ. He has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Whiting Writers' Award, and an O. Henry Prize. He was born in Calcutta and lives in New York City, where he is an associate professor of journalism at New York University.","products":[{"product_id":"this-land-is-our-land-an-immigrants-manifesto-paperback","title":"This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2019 NPR Staff Pick\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA timely argument for why the United States and the West would benefit from accepting more immigrants\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are few subjects in American life that prompt more discussion and controversy than immigration. But do we really understand it? In \u003ci\u003eThis Land Is Our Land\u003c\/i\u003e, the renowned author Suketu Mehta attacks the issue head-on. Drawing on his own experience as an Indian-born teenager growing up in New York City and on years of reporting around the world, Mehta subjects the worldwide anti-immigrant backlash to withering scrutiny. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs he explains, the West is being destroyed not by immigrants but by the fear of immigrants. Mehta juxtaposes the phony narratives of populist ideologues with the ordinary heroism of laborers, nannies, and others, from Dubai to Queens, and explains why more people are on the move today than ever before. As civil strife and climate change reshape large parts of the planet, it is little surprise that borders have become so porous. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut Mehta also stresses the destructive legacies of colonialism and global inequality on large swaths of the world: When today's immigrants are asked, \"Why are you here?\" they can justly respond, \"We are here because you were there.\" And now that they are here, as Mehta demonstrates, immigrants bring great benefits, enabling countries and communities to flourish. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eImpassioned, rigorous, and richly stocked with memorable stories and characters, \u003ci\u003eThis Land Is Our Land\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely and necessary intervention, and a literary polemic of the highest order.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367731101919,"sku":"9781250619495","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GvM3Epnju9781250619495.webp?v=1789113392"},{"product_id":"maximum-city-bombay-lost-and-found-paperback","title":"Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us an insider's view of this stunning metropolis. He approaches the city from unexpected angles, taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs, following the life of a bar dancer raised amid poverty and abuse, opening the door into the inner sanctums of Bollywood, and delving into the stories of the countless villagers who come in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs each individual story unfolds, Mehta also recounts his own efforts to make a home in Bombay after more than twenty years abroad. Candid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, \u003ci\u003eMaximum City\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world.\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brilliantly illuminating portrait of Bombay and its people-a book as vast, diverse, and rich in experience, incident, and sensation as the city itself-from an award-winning Indian-American fiction writer and journalist. \u003cbr\u003eA native of Bombay, Suketu Mehta gives us a true insider's view of this stunning city, bringing to his account a rare level of insight, detail, and intimacy. He approaches the city from unexpected angles-taking us into the criminal underworld of rival Muslim and Hindu gangs who wrest control of the city's byzantine political and commercial systems . . . following the life of a bar dancer who chose the only life available to her after a childhood of poverty and abuse . . . opening the doors onto the fantastic, hierarchical inner sanctums of Bollywood . . . delving into the stories of the countless people who come from the villages in search of a better life and end up living on the sidewalks-the essential saga of a great city endlessly played out. \u003cbr\u003eThrough it all-as each individual story unfolds-we hear Mehta's own story: of the mixture of love, frustration, fascination, and intense identification he feels for and with Bombay, as he tries to find home again after twenty-one years abroad. And he makes clear that Bombay-the world's largest city-is a harbinger of the vast megalopolises that will redefine the very idea of \"the city\" in the near future. \u003cbr\u003eCandid, impassioned, funny, and heartrending, \"Maximum City is a revelation of an ancient and ever-changing world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"From the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51382652862687,"sku":"9780375703409","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/22O-Uvg61U9780375703409.webp?v=1789290502"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/suketu-mehta.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}