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Behind the beautiful forevers
- Title
- Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo.
- Author
- Boo, Katherine.
- Publication
- New York : Random House, c2012.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 13-82 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xxii, 256 p.; 25 cm.
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
- Subject
- Call Number
- JFE 13-82
- ISBN
- 9781400067558
- 1400067553
- LCCN
- 2011019555
- OCLC
- 693809650
- 2011019555
- Author
- Boo, Katherine.
- Title
- Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo.
- Imprint
- New York : Random House, c2012.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Note
- Dust jacket title: Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-82