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082 _a823.92 ADI
100 _aAravind Adiga
245 _aLast man in tower
_c/Aravind Adiga
260 _aLondon
_b : Atlantic Books
_c, 2011.
300 _a421 pages
_c; 24 cm
365 _b00
505 _aEvery building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building -- and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society -- Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society -- and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But Bombay has changed in half a century -- not least its name -- and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city ...
520 _a Every building tells a story, but in the jungles of Mumbai, one building - and one man- stand on the borderline between India's past and its future. Ask any Bombaywallah about Vishram Society - Tower A of the Vishram Co-operative Housing Society - and you will be told that it has been pucca for some fifty years despite its location under the flight path and border of slums. But Bombay has changed in half a century - not least its name - and the world in which Tower A was first built is giving way to a new city
650 _aLiterature
655 _a; Apartment dwellers -- India -- Fiction.
_bApartment houses -- India -- Fiction.
700 _aAravind Adiga
942 _cBOOK