Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
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New York : Random House, c2011.
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1st ed.
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xxii, 256 pages ; 25 cm.
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Published
New York : Random House, c2011.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Street Date
1202
Language
English
Accelerated Reader
UG
Level 7.8, 14 Points
Level 7.8, 14 Points
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The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century's great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. 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 fortune in the recyclable garbage of richer people. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a rural childhood, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to good times. But then, as the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed.--From publisher description.
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