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

Boo, Katherine

 
9781846274510: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1846274516 ISBN 13: 9781846274510
Verlag: Granta Books, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all living in the hope that a better future lies ahead. Boo charts the lives of the residents as crime and a global recession shocks the city, and things get a whole lot worse... 'One's first reaction is disbelief followed by stunned silence' "Times"

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KATHERINE BOO is an investigative journalist focusing on matters of poverty and opportunity, and has worked as staff writer and editor for the New Yorker magazine and 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. This, her first book, won the 2012 National Book Award for Non-Fiction, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Guardian First Book Award and the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

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Verlag
Granta Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1846274516
ISBN 13 
9781846274510
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
288
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