Behind the Beautiful Forevers Pdf Summary
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells 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 brilliantly written, 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 “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter – Annawadi’s “most-everything girl” – will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”
But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.
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About Katherine Boo Author Of Behind the Beautiful Forevers pdf Book
Katherine (Kate) J. Boo Author Of Behind the Beautiful Forevers pdf Book is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. She learned to report at the alternative weekly, Washington City Paper, after which she worked as a writer and co-editor of The Washington Monthly magazine. Over the years, her reporting from disadvantaged communities 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, the birthplace of her husband, Sunil Khilnani. Her first book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity” was published in 2012.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers pdf, Paperback, Hardcover Book Information
- ASIN : 1400067553
- Publisher : Random House; 1st edition (February 7, 2012)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 256 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781400067558
- ISBN-13 : 978-1400067558
- Lexile measure : 1030L
- Item Weight : 1.3 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.54 x 1.1 x 9.52 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #444,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #259 in Poverty
- #306 in India History
- #448 in Sociology of Urban Areas
- Customer Reviews: 4.3 out of 5 stars 3,880 ratings
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