| ID | 019718 |
| Call Number | 305.5690954792/BOO |
| Title Proper | Behind the beautiful forevers |
| Other Title Information | Life, death & hope in a Mumbai undercity |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Boo, Katherine |
| Publication | New Delhi, Penguin, 2012. |
| Description | xxiv, 254p Black spine |
| Note | 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. |
| Standard Number | 9780143420309 |
| Price. Qualification | Rs.399(Pb) |
| Classification Number | 305.5690954792 |
| Key Words | Manners and customs ; IBDP ; TOK ; Urban poor ; Creative nonfiction ; Urban poor - India - Mumbai ; Poor - India - Mumbai ; Slums - India - Mumbai |