Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees â€œa fortune beyond countingâ€ in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadiâ€™s â€œmost-everything girl,â€ might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first centuryâ€™s hidden worldsâ€”and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.
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Winner of the National Book Award | The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award | The Los Angeles Times Book Prize | The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award | The New York Public Libraryâ€™s Helen Bernstein Book Award
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NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New York Times â€¢ The Washington Post â€¢ O: The Oprah Magazine â€¢ USA Today â€¢ New York â€¢ The Miami Herald â€¢ San Francisco Chronicle â€¢ Newsday
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The New Yorker â€¢ People â€¢ Entertainment Weekly â€¢ The Wall Street Journal â€¢Â The Boston Globe â€¢ The Economist â€¢ Financial Times â€¢ Newsweek/The Daily Beast â€¢ Foreign Policy â€¢ The Seattle Times â€¢ The Nation â€¢ St. Louis Post-Dispatch â€¢ The Denver Post â€¢ Minneapolis Star Tribune â€¢ Salon â€¢ The Plain Dealer â€¢ The Week â€¢ Kansas City Star â€¢Â SlateÂ â€¢Â Time Out New York â€¢Â Publishers Weekly
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
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â€œA book of extraordinary intelligence [and] humanity . . . beyond groundbreaking.â€â€”Junot DÃaz, The New York Times Book Review
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â€œReported like Watergate, written like Great Expectations, and handily the best international nonfiction in years.â€â€”New York

â€œThis book is both a tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.â€â€”Judgesâ€™ Citation for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
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â€œ[A] landmark book.â€â€”The Wall Street Journal
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â€œA triumph of a book.â€â€”Amartya Sen
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â€œThere are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them.
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-02-07
Format Kindle eBook
EANs 9780679643951

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-02-07
Format	Kindle eBook
EANs	9780679643951

Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

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