Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781400067558 (hbk : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1400067553 (hbk : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: xxii, 256 p. ; 25 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2012.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Prologue: Between roses -- Undercitizens -- Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning -- Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- A come-apart -- The master -- Market city -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field. |
Summary, etc.: | 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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Subject: | Urban poor > India > Bombay. Creative nonfiction. |
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Ansonia Public Library | 305.5 BOO (Text) | 34045061595539 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Babcock Library - Ashford | 305.5 Boo (Text) | 3311000062405P | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Beekley Community Library - New Hartford | 305.5 BOO (Text) | 32544072235533 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bentley Memorial Library - Bolton | 305.5690954792 Boo (Text) | 33160114330858 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Bethel Public Library | 305.569 BOO (Text) | 34030124381168 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | 305.5 BOO (Text) | 34000073989873 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | 305.569/BOO (Text) | 34029124421305 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Burnham Library - Bridgewater | 305.5 BOO (Text) | 36937002122845 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Chester Public Library | 305.5 BOO (Text) | 33210000291407 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
David M. Hunt Library - Falls Village | 305.5 Boo (Text) | 33180123776396 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |