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Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism shocks the city, tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy begin to turn brutal. As Boo gets to know those who dwell at Mumbai's margins, she evokes an extraordinarily vivid and vigorous group of individuals flourishing against the odds amid the complications, corruptions and gross inequalities of the new India.Product Identifiers
PublisherGranta Books
ISBN-139781846274510
eBay Product ID (ePID)138733697
Product Key Features
Number of Pages288 Pages
Publication NameBehind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaUrban Planning, Economic Sociology
AuthorKatherine Boo
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height198 mm
Item Weight204 g
Item Width129 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorKatherine Boo
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