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As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away.

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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. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees a fortune beyond counting 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, Annawadi s most-everything girl, 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 ecomic envy turn brutal. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one ather 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 century s hidden worlds and into the hearts of families impossible to forget. Winner of the National Book Award - The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award - The Los Angeles Times Book Prize - The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award - The New York Public Library s Helen Bernstein Book AwardNAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New York Times The Washington Post O: The Oprah Magazine USA Today New York The Miami Herald San Francisco Chronicle NewsdayNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe New Yorker People Entertainment Weekly The Wall Street Journal The Boston Globe The Ecomist Financial Times Newsweek/The Daily Beast Foreign Policy The Seattle Times The Nation St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Denver Post Minneapolis Star Tribune Salon The Plain Dealer The Week Kansas City Star Slate Time Out New York Publishers WeeklyNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A book of extraordinary intelligence [and] humanity . . . beyond groundbreaking. Jut Diaz, The New York Times Book Review Reported like Watergate, written like Great Expectations, and handily the best international nfiction in years. New York This book is both a tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece. Judges Citation for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award [A] landmark book. The Wall Street Journal A triumph of a book. Amartya Sen There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. Adrian Nicole LeBlanc [A] stunning piece of narrative nfiction . . . [Katherine] Boo s prose is electric. O: The Oprah Magazine Inspiring, and irresistible . . . Boo s extraordinary achievement is twofold. She 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. People

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Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks, Random House USA Inc
ISBN-10
081297932x
ISBN-13
9780812979329
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Author
Katherine Boo
Format
Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
Social Studies: General
Genre
Social Studies: General

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Weight
249g
Height
201mm
Width
130mm

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Place of Publication
New York
Spine
25mm
Author Biography
Katherine Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for TheWashington Post. Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Genius grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. For the last decade, she has divided her time between the United States and India. This is her first book.
Date of Publication
01/10/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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