Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity / Katherine Boo.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400067558
- ISBN: 1400067553
- Physical Description: xxii, 256 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2012]
- Copyright: ©2012
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Prologue: between roses -- pt. 1. Undercitizens. Annawadi ; Asha ; Sunil ; Manju -- pt. 2. The business of burning. Ghost house ; A hole she called a window ; Come-apart ; Master -- pt. 3. A little wildness ; Marquee effect ; Parrots, caught and sold ; Proper sleep -- pt. 4. Up and out. Nine nights of dance ; Something shining ; Trial ; Ice ; Black and white ; A school, a hospital, a cricket field.
- Target Audience Note:
- 1030L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.8 14 156642.
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- Subject:
- Urban poor > India > Mumbai.
Mumbai (India) > Economic conditions > 21st century. - Genre:
- Creative nonfiction.
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