Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Thorndike Press Large Print Nonfiction Series)
by:
Katherine Boo (author)
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author -- 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 teenager who sorts and sells recyclable airport garbage, believes he will lift his family of...
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning Author -- 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 teenager who sorts and sells recyclable airport garbage, believes he will lift his family of eleven out of poverty. Then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terrorism and recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions turn brutal. In Boo's riveting book, global change is made human.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9781410446763 (141044676X)
ASIN: 141044676X
Publish date: 2012-02-15
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Pages no: 421
Edition language: English
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