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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Publisher's Summary
National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2012
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 "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption.
With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter - Annawadi’s "most-everything girl" - will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a 15-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call "the full enjoy". But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.
As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.
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- Mrs
- 06-02-2015
stunning
I loved listening to this after actually
reading it. Very powerful book. Excellent narration. Katherine Boo has challenged my world view.
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- Benjamin
- 22-07-2017
Fascinating!
Great read. A big eye opener to the life of an Indian slum. definitely recommended
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- Jaya Curry
- 09-04-2018
Children matter!
I lived in India in the mid 90's and had the pleasure of meeting many children of the streets. I would say to one "do you know where I can rent a truck to move my things?" The children would rally around and within half an hour my stuff would be on its way to my rented abode. As in Katherine's story I found the kids masters of their environments but I never saw the deapth of anguish her children suffered. The difference between living in a mega city is insurmountable. Tears for these children and their long suffering families.
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