Behind the beautiful forevers : [online electronic audiobook] life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity.
Behind the beautiful forevers : [online electronic audiobook] life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity.
By
:
Boo, Katherine.
Publication Date
:
2012
Subject Term
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Urban poor -- India -- Bombay.
Creative nonfiction.
Electronic books.
Audiobooks -- Unabridged.
Additional Contributors
:
Malhotra, Sunil,
Performer
:
Read by Sunil Malhotra.
Summary
:
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.
Language
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English
ISBN
:
9780307934086
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Provincial Public Libraries | Electronic Audio Bk | Electronic Audio Book | Electronic record |