Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Examines and provides real-life accounts of urban poor families living in Bombay, India.
Katherine Boo Books
August 12, 1964
Kate J. Boo is an acclaimed reporter who has spent over a decade focusing on disadvantaged communities in both India and the United States. Her writing is characterized by deep insight and empathy, revealing the complexities of human life in the face of extreme poverty. Boo masterfully intertwines individual stories with broader social and economic issues, offering readers an engaging and unflinching look at the world. Her work evokes strong emotions and compels readers to reflect on questions of justice and humanity.
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
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
Pulitzerpreisträgerin Katherine Boo erzählt die Geschichten der Menschen, die in Annawadi, einem der Slums von Mumbai, leben. Eng ist es hier und schmutzig. Die Slumbewohner kämpfen um das nackte Überleben. Nur mit dem Sammeln von Müll lässt sich ein wenig Geld verdienen. Und doch: Sie geben die Hoffnung auf eine bessere Zukunft nicht auf.
