Mountain Tales: Love and Loss in the Municipality of Castaway Belongings

Geeta Anand's The Cure Mountain Tales is a powerful exploration of the lives of Mumbai's garbage-pickers,who live and work in the Deonar garbage mountains. The book offers a deeply-felt exploration of ideas and a gripping chronicle of the fates of these forgotten communities.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 02 June 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd

If you read one book about India, read this one.


Geeta Anand, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of The Cure Mountain Tales, is a remarkable feat of immersive reporting and story-telling.


A deeply-felt exploration of ideas, and a gripping chronicle of the fates of the garbage-pickers of Mumbai.


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.


This is a powerful and essential book that offers a unique perspective on India and its people.


I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about this fascinating and complex country.

Weight: 240g
Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788165372
Edition number: Main