Behind the beautiful forevers : [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity]
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Behind the beautiful forevers : [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity]
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- Behind the beautiful forevers : [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity]
- Title remainder
- [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity]
- Statement of responsibility
- Katherine Boo
- Title variation
- Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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 away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter<U+2014>Annawadi<U+2019>s “most-everything girl”<U+2014>will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.” But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century<U+2019>s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget
- Award
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- ALA Notable Book, 2013
- Library Journal Best Books, 2012.
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, 2012.
- National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2012.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2012.
- School Library Journal Best Books: Best Adult Books 4 Teens, 2012.
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- Dewey number
- 305.5/690954792
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- HV4140.M86
- LC item number
- B66 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Target audience
- adult
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