Behind The Beautiful Forever : Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity
by Katherine Boo
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 1921844639
- ISBN 13
- 9781921844638
- Seller
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About This Item
Scribe, Melbourne, 2012. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. 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 15-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, humour, and deep insight into what connects human beings in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the 21st century's hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget. Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 256 pages. Remnants of old price label on the rear cover.. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 1921844639. ISBN/EAN: 9781921844638. Inventory No: 50615. . 9781921844638
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- Bookseller
- Bong Bong Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 50615
- Title
- Behind The Beautiful Forever : Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity
- Author
- Katherine Boo
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1921844639
- ISBN 13
- 9781921844638
- Publisher
- Scribe
- Place of Publication
- Melbourne
- Date Published
- 2012
- Keywords
- BZDB3 Fiction; Unbranded ISBN: 1921844639 EAN: 9781921844638 Katherine Boo Behind The Beautiful Forever : Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity
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