One of those books that gets better with a re-read. There is so much here.Old Review:So wow. Using the micro chasm of a few families in an Indian slum, Boo looks at how economic forces control lives for removed for the big CEO. The thing I found most interesting is that while there is no real moral ...
How India's cripplingly poor people live.I hadn't realised, when I first started reading, that this was a non-fiction book, and I'm so glad that someone pointed this out to me. Knowing that it was true and all the crazy characters were not just a figment of the author's imagination, made it a much m...
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...
This is much scarier than any STEPHEN KING novel. I KEPT ON ASKING HOW THIS COULD NOT BE FICTION. I knew that Mumbai was impoverished, in the past. Yet , I read about the growing middle and professional classes. I saw specials on TV, which showed beautiful new apartment complexes. According to Boo's...
Others have already said it better than I can. An amazing bit of reporting about people living in the direst sort of poverty in the modern world that ranks up there with some of the depression era fiction of Algren and Steinbeck, except, of course, for that fact that this book is non-fiction.
Ένα documentary της ζωής και της κοινωνικής κατάστασης του λαού στις παραγκουπόλεις της Ινδίας. Πολύ ζωντανή περιγραφή (που φαίνεται ότι έχει προκύψει από πολύ ψάξιμο) των απίστευτων συνθηκών ζωής ενός μεγάλου αριθμού ανθρώπων, που σε αφήνει με το στόμα ανοιχτό.Η μεγάλη επιτυχία της Boo είναι ότι τε...
It’s been a distressful morning. The milkman won’t be delivering the daily liter of milk; his house was razed by the local municipality. The family of six has to do with a makeshift shanty to prevent them from drowning in the dense showers of late night rains. Futile visits to the local political co...
Review first published on my blog: http://memoriesfrombooks.blogspot.com/2013/03/behind-beautiful-forevers.htmlBehind the Beautiful Forevers is a snapshot - the history of a place told through the story of one community's fight to survive. The author Katherine Boo is a Pulitzer prize winning journal...
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