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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.
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Katherine Boo
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- Rok vydania
- 2012
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- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- Katherine Boo
- Vydavateľ
- Penguin UK
- Rok vydania
- 2012
- Väzba
- pevná
- ISBN10
- 0670086096
- ISBN13
- 9780670086092
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, Spoločenské vedy, Mapy & Cestovanie, Cestovanie, Literatúra faktu, Sociológia, Osobnosti, India, 21. storočie, Každodenný život, Chudoba, Autobiografické romány, Slumy, Dokumentárne romány
- Prvé vydanie
- 2013
- Pôvodný názov
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Hodnotenie
- 3,95 z 5
- Anotácia
- 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.