In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner
Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is
made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a
better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of
luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper,
the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an
enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the
recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a
woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the
middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter,
Annawadi's "most-everything girl," might become its first female
college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young
thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But
then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and
global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over
religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. With
intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to
one another in an era of tumultuous change, "Behind the Beautiful
Forevers, "based on years of uncompromising reporting, ""carries
the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden
worlds--and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.
Winner of the National Book Award - The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith
Award - The Los Angeles Times Book Prize - The American Academy of
Arts and Letters Award - The New York Public Library's Helen
Bernstein Book Award
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
"The New York Times - The Washington Post - O: The Oprah Magazine -
USA Today - New York - The Miami Herald - San Francisco Chronicle -
Newsday"
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
"The New Yorker - People - Entertainment Weekly - The Wall Street
Journal - The Boston Globe - The Economist - Financial Times -
Newsweek"/The Daily Beast" - Foreign Policy - The Seattle Times -
The Nation - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - The Denver Post -
"Minneapolis" Star Tribune - "Salon" - The Plain Dealer - The Week
- Kansas City Star - "Slate" - Time Out New York - Publishers
Weekly"
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"NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER
"A book of extraordinary intelligence and] humanity . . . beyond
groundbreaking."--Junot Diaz, "The New York Times Book
Review"
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"Reported like Watergate, written like "Great Expectations, "and
handily the best international nonfiction in years."--"New York"
"This book is both a tour de force of social justice reportage and
a literary masterpiece."--Judges' Citation for the PEN/John Kenneth
Galbraith Award
" A] landmark book."--"The Wall Street Journal"
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"A triumph of a book."--Amartya Sen
"There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one
of them."--Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
" A] stunning piece of narrative nonfiction . . . Katherine] Boo's
prose is electric.""--O: The Oprah Magazine"
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"Inspiring, and irresistible . . . Boo's extraordinary achievement
is twofold. She shows us how people in the most desperate
circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity.
Just as important, she makes us care.""--People"
"From the Hardcover edition."
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