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Boo, Katherine, author.
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Urban poor -- India -- Mumbai.
Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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Behind the beautiful...
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Behind the beautiful forevers [large type] : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity / Katherine Boo.
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Boo, Katherine, author.
Detroit, Michigan : Large Print Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, 2013.
Subjects
Urban poor -- India -- Mumbai.
Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
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9781594136184 (large print, paperback)
1594136181 (large print, paperback)
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419 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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Large print edition.
Contents:
Prologue: Between roses -- Undercitizens. Annawadi ; Asha ; Sunil ; Manju -- The business of burning. Ghost house ; A hole she called a window ; The come-apart ; The master -- A little wildness. 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.
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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 fifteen-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.
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