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Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death and hope in a Mumbai slum / Katherine Boo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Portobello Books, 2013.Description: xxii, 256 pages ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781846274510 (pbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.5690954792 23
LOC classification:
  • HV4140.M86
Summary: 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.
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General The Harden Library, King's Hospital Main 305.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available R13683A0499

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.

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