Behind the beautiful forevers :

Boo, Katherine,

Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death and hope in a Mumbai slum / Katherine Boo. - London : Portobello Books, 2013. - xxii, 256 pages ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2012.

Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. As Boo gets to know those who dwell at Mumbai's margins, she evokes an extraordinarily vivid and vigorous group of individuals flourishing against the odds amid the complications, corruptions and gross inequalities of the new India.

9781846274510 (pbk.) : �9.99


Urban poor--India--Bombay.
Society.


Bombay (India)--Social conditions--21st century.

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