Behind the beautiful forevers / Katherine Boo
By: Boo, Katherine [author].
Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2014Copyright date: ©2012Edition: Random House Trade Paperback edition.Description: xxii, 256 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780812979329 (pbk.) :.Other title: Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity [Title appears on cover as:] | Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity [Portion of title].Subject(s): Urban poor -- India -- Mumbai | Mumbai (India) -- Social conditions -- 21st century | Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions -- 21st centuryGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | HV4140.M86 B66 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000012024 |
Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- Ghost house -- The hole she called a window -- The come-apart -- The master -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field
Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions