Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum - Couverture souple

Boo, Katherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1846274494 ISBN 13 : 9781846274497

Editeur : Portobello Books Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining 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. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism shocks the city, tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy begin to turn brutal. 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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À propos de l?auteur

Katherine Boo is an investigative journalist focusing on matters of poverty and opportunity. A staff writer at the New Yorker magazine since 2001, she was previously a writer and editor at the Washington Post. Among the honours her work has received are a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, a National Magazine Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. She is married to Sunil Khilnani, political historian and director of the King's India Institute in London. This is her first book.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Portobello Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1846274494
• ISBN 13: 9781846274497
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 278
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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