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001 2011019555
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008 110513s2012 nyu 000 0 eng
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020 $a9781400067558 (hbk : alk. paper)
020 $a1400067553 (hbk : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aHV4140.M86$bB66 2012
082 00 $a305.5/690954792$223
100 1 $aBoo, Katherine.
245 10 $aBehind the beautiful forevers /$cKatherine Boo.
246 1 $iDust jacket title:$aBehind the beautiful forevers :$blife, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bRandom House,$cc2012.
300 $axxii, 256 p. ;$c25 cm.
505 0 $aPrologue: Between roses -- Undercitizens -- Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning -- Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- A come-apart -- The master -- Market city -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field.
520 $aThe 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.
650 0 $aUrban poor$zIndia$zBombay.
650 0 $aCreative nonfiction.