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Title Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo
Imprint New York : Random House, 2012

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 3 Samhällsvetenskap  305.5 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition 1. ed
Descript xxii, 256 p. ; 25 cm
Note 7. pr
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.--From publisher description
Subject Fattiga -- Indien -- Bombay
Indien -- Mumbai
Social differentiering -- Indien -- Bombay
Bostäder -- Indien -- Bombay
Urban poor -- India -- Bombay
Creative nonfiction
Classmark 305.5690954792
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Add Title Dust jacket title: Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
ISBN/ISSN 9781400067558
1400067553
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