Bombay stories

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Bombay stories

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This sometimes shocking collection of short stories about life in mid-20th-century Bombay captures the city's seedy underbelly of prostitutes, pimps and gangsters as well as the aspiring writers and actors who arrived looking for fame.

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Saʻādat Ḥasan Manṭo | Vintage International/Vintage Books | 2014