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Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo. --
Record details
- ISBN: 1400067553
- ISBN: 9781400067558
- Physical Description: xxii, 256 p.
- Edition: 1st ed. --
- Publisher: New York : Random House, c2012.
Content descriptions
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 32.00 |
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| Subject: | Urban poor > India > Bombay. Slums > India > Bombay. Bombay (India) > Social conditions. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | 305.5690954792 Boo | 31681002723740 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
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. - Baker & Taylor
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. - Baker & Taylor
A first book by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother of a prospective female college student and a young scrap metal thief, in an account that illuminates how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by regional religious, caste and economic tensions. 35,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ⢠NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER ⢠ONE OF TIMEâS TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE ⢠ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMESâS 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY ⢠A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY ⢠AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES
âInspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.ââPeople
âA tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.ââJudges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, USA Today, New York, The Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Newsday
In this 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.
As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees âa fortune beyond countingâ in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadiâs âmost-everything girl,â might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.
With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first centuryâs hidden worldsâand into the hearts of families impossible to forget.
WINNER OF: The PEN Nonfiction Award ⢠The Los Angeles Times Book Prize ⢠The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award ⢠The New York Public Libraryâs Helen Bernstein Book Award
A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, People, Entertainment Weekly, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Economist, Financial Times, Foreign Policy, The Seattle Times, The Nation, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Denver Post, Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Week, Kansas City Star, Slate, Publishers Weekly
