Mumbai and San Francisco Noir
- When
- Tue Mar 6, 2012
- Where
- Modern Times Bookstore Collective
- Time
- 7 pm - 9 pm
- Tags
- Literary Arts, Book Stores
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Description
oin Modern Times and Akashic Books as we slip into the seedy underbellies of Mumbai and San Francisco. The newest in their groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies, Akashic Books' "Mumbai Noir" is a gritty collection of all new short stories from 14 different authors. Sonia Faleiro, one of the brilliant contributors to "Mumbai Noir," will be joined by Jim Nisbet and Sin Soracco of "San Francisco Noir" to lead you through an evening of crime, shadowy corners, and equally adumbral characters, all from the safety of Modern Times.MUMBAI NOIR's stories depict the many ways in which the city's ever-present shadowy aspects often force themselves onto the lives of ordinary people. They offer tales of women being stalked by psychopath Romeos, of ordinary men flirting with death in dance bars, and of families falling through the crack of the city's enduring communal divide. What emerges is the sense of a city that, despite its new name and triumphant tryst with capitalism, is yet to heal from the wounds of the early '90s, and from all the subsequent acts of havoc wreaked within its precincts by both local and outside forces.
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