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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

ISBN: 9781400067558 | 1400067553

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House
Pub. Date: 2/7/2012

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From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, 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 twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this brilliantly written, 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... MORE with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter-Annawadi's "most-everything girl"-will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call "the full enjoy." But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths,the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Foreverscarries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget. From the Hardcover edition.

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.

Prologue: between roses	p. ix
undercitizens
Annawadi	p. 3
Asha	p. 17
Sunil	p. 31
Manju	p. 50
the business of burning
Ghost House	p. 71
The Hole She Called a Window	p. 84
The Come-Apart	p. 99
The Master	p. 117
a little wildness
. Mar... MOREquee Effect	p. 135
Parrots, Caught and Sold	p. 152
Proper Sleep	p. 166
up and out
Nine Nights of Dance	p. 177
Something Shining	p. 190
The Trial	p. 200
Ice	p. 213
Black and White	p. 221
A School, a Hospital, a Cricket Field	p. 233
Author's Note	p. 247
Acknowledgments	p. 255
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