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Behind the beautiful forevers : [life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity] / Katherine Boo.

Author: Boo, Katherine.

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: New York : Random House, c2012.

ISBN: 9781400067558 (hbk.)
1400067553 (hbk.)
9780679645504 (ebk.)
0679645500 (ebk.)

Description: xxii, 256 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject: Urban poor India Bombay.
Bombay (India) Economic conditions 21st century.

Notes: Subtitle from jacket.

Contents: Prologue: between roses -- pt. 1. Undercitizens. Annawadi ; Asha ; Sunil ; Manju -- pt. 2. The business of burning. Ghost house ; A hole she called a window ; The come-apart ; The 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 ; The trial ; Ice ; Black and white ; A school, a hospital, a cricket field.

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.

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