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Title: Mountain Tales: Love & loss in the municipality of castaway belongings
Author: ROY, SAUMYA
Format: HARDCOVER
Publication date: 14/09/2021
Imprint: PROFILE BOOKS (UK)
Price: $35.00
Publishing status: Active
A city struggling with the cost of its appetites. A rubbish mountain eighteen stories high. And the people who call it home.
All of Mumbai’s memories and castaway possessions come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. And among these vast, teetering piles of discarded things – medical waste, rotten food, old clothes, broken glass and twisted metal – a small, forgotten community lives and works.
Scouring the dump for whatever can be resold or recycled, waste pickers also mark the familiar milestones of babies born, love found, illnesses suffered and recovered from. Like a mirror image, their stories are shaped by the influx of unwanted things from the world outside.
But now, as Deonar’s toxic halo becomes undeniable, a change is coming. And as officials try to close it, the lives that the pickers have built on the Mountain seem more fragile than ever.
ISBN: 9781788165365
Dimension: 216mm X 135mm
Pages: 304