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Castaway Mountain: Love and Loss Among the Wastepickers of Mumbai
By Saumya Roy
Hardcover
$28.00
By Saumya Roy
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*One of NPR's "Books We Love 2021"*
"'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be drawn to this harrowing portrait."
—Publishers Weekly
"Castaway Mountain deserves every accolade. A stunning achievement."
—Kiran Desai, Booker Prize Winner, author of Inheritance of Loss.
All of Mumbai’s possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Toweri...
"'I came to see the mountains as an outpouring of our modern lives,' Roy writes, 'of the endless chase for our desires to fill us.' Readers of Behind the Beautiful Forevers will be drawn to this harrowing portrait."
—Publishers Weekly
"Castaway Mountain deserves every accolade. A stunning achievement."
—Kiran Desai, Booker Prize Winner, author of Inheritance of Loss.
All of Mumbai’s possessions and memories come to die at the Deonar garbage mountains. Toweri...
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