Description: Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Hardcover by Boo, Katherine, ISBN 1400067553, ISBN-13 9781400067558, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 publisher description.
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Book Title: Behind the Beautiful Forevers : Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2012
Topic: Developing & Emerging Countries, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Asia / India & South Asia
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 21.5 Oz
Author: Katherine Boo
Item Length: 9.5 in
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover
