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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.
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Urban poor, New York Times bestseller, Creative nonfiction, nyt:hardcover_political_books=2012-02-25, Poor, Slums, Economic conditions, Social conditions, Poverty, Social classes, Fattiga, Armut, NEW LIST 20120331, Reading Level-Grade 11, Reading Level-Grade 12, HISTORY, India, Economic history, Nonfiction, History, Sociology, Large type books, Poor, india, Mumbai (india), India, social conditions, New York Times reviewed, Description and travelShowing 6 featured editions. View all 13 editions?
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Behind the beautiful forevers
2015, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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- Random House Trade paperback edition. On the Same Page edition
0812988698 9780812988697
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Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity
2013, Penguin Books
in English
0143420305 9780143420309
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Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
2012, Scribe Publications
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1921844639 9781921844638
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Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a mumbai undercity
2012, Thorndike Press
in English
- Large print ed.
141044676X 9781410446763
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Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death and hope in a Mumbai slum
2012, Portobello Books, Portobello Books Ltd (7 Jun 2012)
in English
1846274494 9781846274497
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Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
2011, Random House
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- 1st ed.
1400067553 9781400067558
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