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037 _bRandom House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157
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100 1 _aBoo, Katherine.
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245 1 0 _aBehind the beautiful forevers :
_blife, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity /
_cKatherine Boo.
246 3 0 _aLife, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bRandom House,
_cc2011.
300 _axxii, 256 p. ;
_c25 cm.
505 0 _aPrologue: between roses -- Undercitizens -- Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning -- Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- A come-apart -- The master -- Market city -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining รก -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aUrban poor
_zIndia
_zBombay.
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