Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
(Sprache: Englisch)
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will...
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Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism shocks the city, tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy begin to turn brutal. As Boo gets to know those who dwell at Mumbai's margins, she evokes an extraordinarily vivid and vigorous group of individuals flourishing against the odds amid the complications, corruptions and gross inequalities of the new India.
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Trade paperback. A landmark debut from a Pulitzer Prize-winning "New Yorker" journalist, telling the stories of the residents of a Mumbai slum. Powerful reportage, it is seen as the sort of book Dickens would write about India, were he alive today. 'A triumph of a book. A beautiful account, told through real-life stories, of the sorrows and joys, anxieties and stamina, in the lives of the precarious and powerless in urban India whom a booming country has failed to absorb and integrate' Amartya Sen
Autoren-Porträt von Katherine Boo
Katherine Boo schreibt fest angestellt beim 'New Yorker'. Ihre Arbeit wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem Mac Arthur 'Genius' Grant, dem National Magazine Award for Feature Writing und dem Pulitzer Prize. In den letzten zehn Jahren pendelte sie zwischen Indien und den USA.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Katherine Boo
- 2012, XXII, 256 Seiten, Maße: 15,4 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Granta Books
- ISBN-10: 1846274494
- ISBN-13: 9781846274497
- Erscheinungsdatum: 20.03.2012
Sprache:
Englisch
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Praise for "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" "Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights. There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that."--Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of "Random Family""I couldn't put "Behind the Beautiful Forevers "down even when I wanted to--when the misery, abuse and filth that Boo so elegantly and understatedly describes became almost overwhelming. Her book, situated in a slum on the edge of Mumbai's international airport, is one of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of "The Wire, " this would be it."--Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed""A beaut
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