Behind the beautiful forevers
Boo, Katherine2014
Book
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 "a fortune beyond counting" 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, Annawadi's "most-everything girl," 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, humour, 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 century's hidden worlds--and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.
Main title:
Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo.
Author:
Boo, Katherine, author
Edition:
Random House trade paperback edition.
Imprint:
New York : Random House Trade Paperback, 2014.©2012.
Collation:
xxii, 256 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
Prologue. Between roses -- Part 1. Undercitizens -- 1. Annawadi -- 2. Asha -- 3. Sunil -- 4. Manju -- Part 2. The business of burning -- 5. Ghost house -- 6. The hole she called a window -- 7. The come-apart -- 8. The master -- Part 3. A little wildness -- 9. Marquee effect -- 10. Parrots, caught and sold -- 11. Proper sleep -- Part 4. Up and out -- 12. Nine nights of dance -- 13. Something shining -- 14. The trial -- 15. Ice -- 16. Black and white -- 17. A school, a hospital, a cricket field.
Awards:
"Winner, National Book Award; 10 Best Books 2012, The New York Times Book Review" --Cover.
ISBN:
97819218446389781921844638 (Paperback)9780812979329 (paperback)
Dewey class:
305.5690954792362.50954792362.5305.569
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
134925
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | -Biography | BIOG 362.5 BOO | Available |
| Library at the Dock | -Biography | BIOG 362.5 BOO | Available |
| Southbank Library | -Society | SOCIETY 305.569 BOO | Available |