Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

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Description: Amazon.com Review Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2012: Katherine Boo spent three years among the residents of the Annawadi slum, a sprawling, cockeyed settlement of more than 300 tin-roof huts and shacks in the shadow of Mumbai’s International Airport. From within this “sumpy plug of slum” Boo unearths stories both tragic and poignant--about residents’ efforts to raise families, earn a living, or simply survive. These unforgettable characters all nurture far-fetched dreams of a better life. As one boy tells his brother: “Everything around us is roses. And we’re like the s**t in between.” A New Yorker wr ... (more)

Manufacturer: Random House
Release date: 7 February 2012
ISBN-10 : 1400067553 | ISBN-13: 9781400067558

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