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Supersummary, a modern alternative to sparknotes and cliffsnotes, offers highquality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics. There will soon be more people living in the city of bombay than on the continent of australia. He sets out to piece together the puzzle of the city, covering everything from its ubiquitous slums to the eversoglamorous bollywood to its burgeoning underworld. The complex texture of these extraordinary tales is threaded together by suketu mehtas own history of growing up in bombay and returning to live there after a 21year absence, and in looking through the eyes of his found the city within himself.
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