Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo.
2012
305.5690954792 B724b 2012
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Title
Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo.
Author
Variant Title
Dust jacket title: Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781400067558 (hbk : alk. paper)
1400067553 (hbk : alk. paper)
9780679645504 (ebook)
0679645500 (ebook)
1400067553 (hbk : alk. paper)
9780679645504 (ebook)
0679645500 (ebook)
Imprint
New York : Random House, c2012.
Language
English
Description
xxii, 256 p. ; 25 cm.
Call Number
305.5690954792 B724b 2012
System Control No.
(OCoLC)693809650
(OCoLC)693809650
(OCoLC)693809650
Summary
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 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 fortune in the recyclable garbage of richer people. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a rural childhood, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to good times. But then, as the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed.--From publisher description.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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