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Apr 8, 2014 · In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.
About Behind the Beautiful Forevers. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE “Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity.
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The novel opens with a prologue that introduces Abdul, a garbage sorter in the Mumbai slum of Annawadi. Abdul is hiding in his familys garbage shed, afraid of being arrested for setting his neighbor Fatima on fire, despite that he is innocent and has tried as hard as possible to stay out of trouble all his life. The novel then skips backward to Jan...
Another slum resident, Asha, also dreams of making it big. She wants to be the first female slumlord of Annawadi, fixing issues for the powerful Shiv Sena party and taking advantage of government anti-poverty programs to make money. Asha does nothing without profit in mind, including sending her daughter, Manju, to college so that Manju will be abl...
Fatima, disdainfully called One Leg due to a birth defect that twisted one of her legs, also rebels against the confines of her life. Forced to marry a Muslim man and move to Mumbai from a rural village, Fatima flaunts her extra-marital affairs to give herself a sense of self-worth. Zehrunisa (Abduls mother) does not approve of her next-door neighb...
Karam (Abduls father) looks forward to one day moving his family out of Annawadi to a Muslim suburb called Vasai, but Zehrunisa would rather use their limited savings to improve their current house in Annawadi. Zehrunisa wins, and Abdul tries to install shelves into the brick wall that the Husain house and Fatimas house share. Fatima becomes alarme...
Jan 31, 2012 · Jan. 30, 2012. “Zehrunisa Husain was a tear-factory even on good days; it was one of her chief ways of starting conversations,” Katherine Boo writes in “Behind the Beautiful Forevers,” her...
What themes are explored in the book? Major themes include the struggle against economic and social inequality, the impact of corruption at all levels of society, the resilience and hope of the human spirit, and the challenges and complexities of urbanization and global capitalism. How does Katherine Boo portray the city of Mumbai?
Feb 9, 2012 · Feb. 8, 2012. Unlike many journalists Katherine Boo aspires to invisibility. She hates publicity and talks about herself with about as much ease as someone trying to wriggle from a thicket ...
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Feb 7, 2012 · BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS LIFE, DEATH, AND HOPE IN A MUMBAI UNDERCITY. by Katherine Boo ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 7, 2012. The best book yet written on India in the throes of a brutal transition.
