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Détails
| Genre/forme: | Creative nonfiction |
|---|---|
| Format – détails additionnels: | Online version: Boo, Katherine. Behind the beautiful forevers. (OCoLC)1085907625 |
| Type de document: | Livre |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs: |
Katherine Boo |
| ISBN: | 9781400067558 1400067553 9780812994186 0812994183 9780812979329 081297932X |
| Numéro OCLC: | 693809650 |
| Récompenses: | Winner, National Book Awards 2012 for Nonfiction. |
| Description: | xxii, 256 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contenu: | Prologue: Between roses -- Undercitizens -- Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning -- Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- A come-apart -- The master -- Market city -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field. |
| Titre de collection: | Book club kit |
| Responsabilité: | Katherine Boo. |
Résumé:
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.
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