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28%OFFKatherine Boo - Behind the Beautiful Forevers - 9781846274510 - V9781846274510
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

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Description for Behind the Beautiful Forevers Paperback. A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might have written about India Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFFA; JFSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie 'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara Ehrenreich 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, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846274510
SKU
V9781846274510
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-98

About Katherine Boo
Katherine Boo is an investigative journalist focusing on matters of poverty and opportunity. A contributor to the New Yorker magazine since 2001, she was previously a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. Among the honours her work has received are a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, a National Magazine Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This, her first ... Read more

Reviews for Behind the Beautiful Forevers
A triumph of a book. A beautiful account of the sorrows and joys, anxieties and stamina, in the lives of the precarious and powerless in urban India... A brilliant book that simultaneously informs, agitates, angers, inspires and instigates.
Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics One's first reaction is disbelief followed by stunned silence... takes us into ... Read more

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