Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

AvKatherine Boo

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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'A Mumbai slum understood and imagined as never before in language of intense beauty' Salman Rushdie'If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it' Barbara Ehrenreich Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism shocks the city, tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy begin to turn brutal. As Boo gets to know those who dwell in Mumbai's margins, she evokes an extraordinarily vivid group of individuals flourishing against the odds amid the complications, corruptions and gross inequalities of the new India. 'A triumph of a book. A beautiful account of the sorrows and joys, anxieties and stamina, in the lives of the precarious and powerless in urban India' Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics 'Magnificent...a masterpiece... Quite simply, one of the finest works on contemporary India yet written' Sunday Telegraph

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2013-02-07
Mått:130 x 199 x 19 mm
Vikt:200 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:288
Förlag:Granta Books
ISBN:9781846274510
Utmärkelser:Winner of Pulitzer Prize 2011 (UK)

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KATHERINE BOO is an investigative journalist focusing on matters of poverty andopportunity, and has worked as staff writer and editor for the New Yorker magazine and the Washington Post. Among the honours her work has received are a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, a National Magazine Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This, her first book, won the 2012 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

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A triumph of a book. A beautiful account of the sorrows and joys, anxieties and stamina, in the lives of the precarious and powerless in urban India... A brilliant book that simultaneously informs, agitates, angers, inspires and instigates.

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Denna bok är sprängfylld med fakta och källor utan att för en sekund vara tråkig. Tvärtom, det är dramatiskt och medryckande! Nära, kärleksfulla beskrivningar av några verkliga individer som lever i en slumstad när lyxhotell. Det utspelar sig i samma Mumbai som du kanske läst om i Shantaram. Men den här gången är det vanliga människors verklighet som skildras. Man får en inblick i hur människor finner uppgifter och mening trots grym fattigdom och korruption. Alla borde läsa denna bok, såväl skolungdomar som vuxna! Detta är vår tid. Vår värld.
Ola F
30 september 2019