Main entry:

Boo, Katherine.

Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New York : Random House, ©2012.

Description:

xxii, 256 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Subtitle from verso.
Prologue : between roses -- Undercitizens. Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning. Ghost house -- The hole she called a window -- The come-apart -- The master -- A little wildness. Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out. Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field.
National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2012.
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, 2013.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.

Resources:
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ISBN:

1400067553
9781400067558
9780812979329
081297932X
9780679645504
0679645500

Subject:

Urban poor India Mumbai.
Pauvres en milieu urbain Inde Mumbai.
Economic history.
Urban poor.
Creative nonfiction.
Urban poor India Bombay.
Mumbai (India) Economic conditions 21st century.
India Mumbai.

Form/genre:

Creative nonfiction.
Nonfiction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277426
Call No.: BIB 212241
Status: Available