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Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.
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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 travelEdition | Availability |
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Behind the beautiful forevers
2015, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Apr 08, 2014, Random House Trade Paperbacks, Katherine Boo
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Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity
2013, Penguin Books
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
Feb 07, 2013, imusti, Portobello Books Ltd
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Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
2012, Scribe Publications
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
2012, Random House
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Feb 07, 2012, Random House Audio
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Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a mumbai undercity
2012, Thorndike Press
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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
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
2012, Scribe Publications
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
2012-01-01, Random House
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Behind the beautiful forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
2011, Random House
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"The book in your hands was especially chosen for you, and for your incoming class... This is our On the Same Page program..."--Introductory letter.
National Book Award for nonfiction, 2012
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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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