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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity: Life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME'S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY“Inspiring... extraordinary... [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as important, she makes us care.”—People“A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.”—Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • New York • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle • NewsdayIn this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formida
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Katherine Boo
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679645504
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Science, Social Science, History
- Rating
- 3.97 / 5 (71,309 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14