02418cam a2200325 a 4500 5215 5215 16776742 OSt 20200128154319.0 110513s2012 nyu 000 0 eng 2011019555 9780143420309 (OCoLC)ocn693809650 DLC eng DLC BTCTA YDXCP UPZ ZAD GO3 ZS3 MOF VP@ OBE BUR IEB CKE JRS BDX TXA DLC pcc a-ii--- HV4140.M86 B66 2012 305.569 BOO 23 Boo, Katherine. Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo. 1st ed. London : Penguin Books, c2012. xxii, 256 p. ; 25 cm. Prologue: Between roses -- Undercitizens -- Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning -- Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- A come-apart -- The master -- Market city -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field. 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. Poor India Mumbai. Creative nonfiction. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc STL 0 0 ddc 0 0 Stack II 123/4 AIISH AIISH 2020-01-02 2 305.569 BOO 19055 2023-06-13 00:00:00 2023-05-29 2020-01-02 STL