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BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS
LIFE, DEATH AND HOPE IN A MUMBAI SLUM |
| By: |
Katherine Boo |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£10.99 |
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£8.02 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1846274516 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781846274510 |
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| Publisher: |
GRANTA BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2013 |
| Pages: |
288 |
| Description: |
A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might have written about India |
| Synopsis: |
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Portobello Books Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 2011
Short-listed for Dayton Literary Peace Prize: Non-Fiction 2013
Short-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2013
Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2012
Short-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2012 |
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