Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1400067553
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067558
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About This Item
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees a fortune beyond counting in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi s most-everything girl, might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century s hidden worlds and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.
Synopsis
Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post . Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur “Genius” grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. For the last decade, she has divided her time between the United States and India. This is her first book.
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- The Vespiary Book Restoration & Bindery (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SQ8013849
- Title
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Author
- Katherine Boo
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1400067553
- ISBN 13
- 9781400067558
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2012-02-07
- Keywords
- india, sociology, caste
- Bookseller catalogs
- General Non-Fiction;
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