A few good tales of cities

I often had a question for the writers I met at JLF at Boulder: can you name a book that is a good example of writing about cities?

The Jaipur Literature Festival recently came to the US – to Boulder, Colorado, at the foothills of the tall Rockies. Partly as a result of the thin mountain air, and partly because of its wide skies and intense bright light, but maybe also because of its laws that make marijuana-consumption legal in Colorado, there is a sense of weightlessness on the streets. I enjoyed my days there.

In Manil Suri’s Death of Vishnu, the city (in this case Mumbai) provides a story of striving against the erasure of anonymity and death.