· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Hardcover · EAN: 9781400067558 · Edition: 1 · Format: Deckle Edge · ISBN: 9781400067558 · Label: Random House · Manufacturer: Random House · Number Of Items: 1 · Number Of Pages: 288 · Product Group: Book · Product Type Name: ABIS_BOOK · Publication Date: 2012-02-07 · Publisher: Random House · Release Date: 2012-02-07 · SKU: YA04-6685_1400067553 · Studio: Random House

· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Kindle Edition · Edition: 1st · EISBN: 9780679643951 · Format: Kindle eBook · Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks · Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks · Number Of Items: 1 · Number Of Pages: 290 · Product Group: eBooks · Product Type Name: ABIS_EBOOKS · Publication Date: 2012-02-07 · Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks · Release Date: 2012-02-07 · Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks
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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.


From the Hardcover edition.

· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Kindle Edition with Audio/Video · Edition: 1st · EISBN: 9780679645504 · Format: Kindle eBook · Label: Random House · Manufacturer: Random House · Number Of Items: 1 · Number Of Pages: 290 · Product Group: eBooks · Product Type Name: ABIS_EBOOKS · Publication Date: 2012-02-07 · Publisher: Random House · Release Date: 2012-02-07 · Studio: Random House
» This enhanced eBook features exclusive video footage shot over the course of three years by the author and several children of the Annawadi slum. 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.

· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Paperback · EAN: 9781594136184 · Edition: Lrg Rep · Format: Large Print · ISBN: 1594136181 · Label: Gale Research Inc · Manufacturer: Gale Research Inc · Number Of Pages: 421 · Product Group: Book · Product Type Name: ABIS_BOOK · Publication Date: 2013-02-26 · Publisher: Gale Research Inc · Release Date: 2013-02-26 · SKU: 9781594136184 · Studio: Gale Research Inc

· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Paperback · EAN: 9780812979329 · Edition: Reprint · ISBN: 081297932X · Label: Random House Trade Paperbacks · Manufacturer: Random House Trade Paperbacks · Number Of Pages: 288 · Product Group: Book · Product Type Name: ABIS_BOOK · Publication Date: 2014-09-02 · Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks · Release Date: 2014-09-02 · Studio: Random House Trade Paperbacks

· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Hardcover · EAN: 9780670086092 · ISBN: 0670086096 · Label: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd · Manufacturer: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd · Product Group: Book · Product Type Name: ABIS_BOOK · Publication Date: 2012-01 · Publisher: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd · SKU: 126019 · Studio: Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd

· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Audio CD · Creator (Role: Reader): Sunil Malhotra · EAN: 9780307934055 · Edition: Unabridged · Format: Audiobook | Unabridged · ISBN: 0307934055 · Label: Random House Audio · Manufacturer: Random House Audio · Product Group: Book · Product Type Name: ABIS_BOOK · Publication Date: 2012-02-07 · Publisher: Random House Audio · Release Date: 2012-02-07 · SKU: ING0307934055 · Studio: Random House Audio

· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Audio CD · EAN: 9780307934079 · ISBN: 0307934071 · Label: Books on Tape · Manufacturer: Books on Tape · Product Group: Book · Product Type Name: ABIS_BOOK · Publication Date: 2012-02-07 · Publisher: Books on Tape · Studio: Books on Tape

· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Paperback · EAN: 9781846274510 · ISBN: 1846274516 · Label: Portobello Books Ltd · Manufacturer: Portobello Books Ltd · Product Group: Book · Product Type Name: ABIS_BOOK · Publication Date: 2013-02-07 · Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd · Studio: Portobello Books Ltd

· Author: Katherine Boo · Binding: Paperback · EAN: 9781846274497 · ISBN: 1846274494 · Label: Portobello Books Ltd · Manufacturer: Portobello Books Ltd · Number Of Items: 1 · Product Group: Book · Product Type Name: ABIS_BOOK · Publication Date: 2012-06-07 · Publisher: Portobello Books Ltd · SKU: NL9781846274497 · Studio: Portobello Books Ltd