- Apartment dwellers, Apartment houses, Real estate developers, Social conflict
A riveting story of money and power, luxury and deprivation, set in the booming city of Mumbai. Real estate developer Dharmen Shah rose from nothing to create an empire and hopes to seal his legacy with a building named the Shanghai, which promises to be one of the city's most elite addresses.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Aravind Adiga
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 381
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Editions
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780307594099
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