Description: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, & Hope in Mumbai By Katherine Boo. Audio book is in good condition Box has wear and some staining that does not affect the CD's Please see pictures for details Condition is "Pre-Owned" Summary: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 "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter - Annawadi's "most-everything girl" - will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call "the full enjoy." But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget. Shipping is USPS Media Mail If you are not checking out our other items, you are missing out!https://www.ebay.com/str/leisuretimemerchandiseBe sure to add us to your favorites list!Thanks!
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Format: Audio CD
Run Time: 8.5 hours
Topic: Tragedy, Survival
Narrator: Sunil Malhotra
Language: English
Publication Year: 2012
Book Title: Behind The Beautiful Forevers
Intended Audience: Adults
Author: Katherine Boo
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Random House
Genre: Survival, Tragedy
Type: Audiobook
