Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
$31.04
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2012
Summary
From Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the world’s most lively but treacherous cities.
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees ‘a fortune beyond counting’ in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921844638 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921844639 |
| Author: | Katherine Boo |
| Publisher: | Scribe Publications |
| Imprint: | Scribe Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 138mm x 209mm |
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Critics Review
“Without question the best book yet written on contemporary India. Also, the best work of narrative nonfiction I’ve read in twenty-five years.” - Ramachandra Guha, author of India After Gandhi.
Katherine Boo
Katherine Boo, a staff writer for The New Yorker, has spent the last 20 years reporting from within poor communities, considering how societies distribute opportunity and how individuals get out of poverty. She learned to report at The Washington City Paper. She was also an editor of the Washington Monthly and, for nearly a decade, a reporter and editor at The Washington Post. Behind the Beautiful Forevers, her first book, received the United States’ National Book Award. Her magazine and newspaper work has been recognised with a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, and the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.
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