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An edition of Last man in tower (2011)

Last man in tower

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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 ...

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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Language
English
Pages
421

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Cover of: Last Man in Tower
Last Man in Tower
2012, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Vintage
in English
Cover of: Last man in tower
Last man in tower
2012, Atlantic
in English
Cover of: Last Man in Tower
Last Man in Tower
2011, Atlantic Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: Last Man in Tower
Last Man in Tower
2011-11-01, Atlantic Books (UK)
Cover of: Last man in tower
Last man in tower
2011, Clipper Large Print
in English
Cover of: Last man in tower
Last man in tower
2011, Fourth Estate
in English
Cover of: Last man in tower
Last man in tower
2011, Atlantic Books
in English

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Table of Contents

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 ...

Edition Notes

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.92
Library of Congress
PR9619.4.A35 L37 2011, PR9619.4.A35

The Physical Object

Pagination
421 pages
Number of pages
421

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28275487M
Internet Archive
lastmanintower0000adig_h0d2
ISBN 10
1848875169, 1848875177
ISBN 13
9781848875166, 9781848875173
OCLC/WorldCat
711052715

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