Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Name: Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
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ISBN: 9781400067558

ISBN-10: 1400067553

ISBN-13: 9781400067558

Edition: 2011

Authors: Katherine Boo

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From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/7/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Prologue: between roses



undercitizens



Annawadi



Asha



Sunil



Manju



the business of burning



Ghost House



The Hole She Called a Window



The Come-Apart



The Master



a little wildness



. Marquee Effect



Parrots, Caught and Sold



Proper Sleep



up and out



Nine Nights of Dance



Something Shining



The Trial



Ice



Black and White



A School, a Hospital, a Cricket Field


Author's Note


Acknowledgments