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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity (edició 2012)

de Katherine Boo (Autor)

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History. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NAMED ONE OF TIMES 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. Just as important, she makes us care.People

A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times The Washington Post O: The Oprah Magazine USA Today New York The Miami Herald San Francisco Chronicle Newsday
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.
As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees a fortune beyond counting in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadis most-everything girl, might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. 
With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first centurys hidden worldsand into the hearts of families impossible to forget. 
WINNER OF: The PEN Nonfiction Award The Los Angeles Times Book Prize The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award The New York Public Librarys Helen Bernstein Book Award
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker People Entertainment Weekly The Wall Street Journal  The Boston Globe The Economist Financial Times Foreign Policy The Seattle Times The Nation St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Denver Post  Minneapolis Star Tribune The Week Kansas City Star  Slate   Publishers Weekly.
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Títol:Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Autors:Katherine Boo (Autor)
Informació:Random House (2012), Edition: 1st, 290 pages
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Valoració:****
Etiquetes:south-asia, adults, listened-to-cd, high-school

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Es mostren 1-5 de 298 (següent | mostra-les totes)
Boo deserves an academy award for writing this non fiction book as if it were a novel. ( )
  ben_r47 | Feb 22, 2024 |
themes of poverty, race and cast conflict didn't resonate with me
  rubyman | Feb 21, 2024 |
If it had been a novel I wouldn't have finished it. But I felt I had to because those people in that awful slum had to live it so at least I should witness it. Some of them keep a kind of hope for a different future. It's one of the saddest books I've read and it will stay with me. Brilliantly written. ( )
  dhenn31 | Jan 24, 2024 |
I became very angry and sad while reading this book that chronicles the real lives of several individuals living in a slum of Mumbai. The author spent three years investigating and interviewing, and there were so many awful events to record.

It was so very sad to read about the hopelessness of many of these people, and to hear them debating about which god might help them most. It makes me want to support organizations like Gospel for Asia even more, since they will help with material and spiritual needs.

One of the biggest downfalls of this book is that there is no discussion of how people in the West might be able to help. Questions are raised, but not answered; while it may help to create a conversation between some people, it will be set aside and forgotten by many others, who rely on immediate action to cement experiences in their minds and sustain their compassion.

Note: There is some profanity, and frank mentions of sex (though nothing detailed). ( )
  RachelRachelRachel | Nov 21, 2023 |
The author writes for the New Yorker and has made a career of reporting from among poor people around the world. The story here is of several characters in a particular slum near the airport in Mumbai. The author lived with these people as explained in a prologue. The work obviously hasn't done as much for me as for others; it won the national book award for non-fiction this year. Some reviews claim that this book is non-fiction with human or heart-felt stories that rival fiction. Unfortunately, I mostly noticed a superficiality or brevity that one would only expect in weak fiction. A fictional account similar to this story would, after all, have much more character development. This is easier to do in fiction, since fiction is untrue. Fiction also has to tie its stories together, have a theme or themes, use imagery, etc. But this book is journalism. My problem is probably just that reviews of this book lead me to expect something else. One review compared the book to Dickens. That is laughable. ( )
  markm2315 | Jul 1, 2023 |
Es mostren 1-5 de 298 (següent | mostra-les totes)
Next I devoured Boo’s book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” which extended her probing and compassionate portrayal of poverty to India. Before becoming a journalist, I had spent nearly two years working with grass-roots groups in Mumbai slums just like Annawadi, the one she spent three years chronicling for the book. I’d been so upset by journalistic portrayals of these neighborhoods that I wrote an entire master’s thesis about the subject. Now, finally, here was an account that took slum residents seriously as protagonists in their own lives, without dismissing the inequality and corruption that stymied them.
 
Boo, in letting go of her story, in dwelling with it relatively briefly in her book's 250 pages (in contrast to the years she spent with the slum-dwellers), allows it to resonate with us as a small classic of contemporary writing.
 

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She was damaged, and acknowledged it freely. She was illiterate--acknowledged that, too. But when others spoke of her fury as an ignorant, animal thing, that was bukwaas, utter nonsense. Much of her outrage derived from a belated recognition that she was as human as anyone else.
. . . He still found it strange to think of her as dead, because at Annawadi he hadn't considered her fully alive. Like many of his neighbors, he had assessed her damage, physical and emotional, and casually assigned her to a lesser plane of existence. . . .
In the West, and among some in the Indian elite, this word, "corruption", had purely negative connotations; it was seen as blocking India's modern, global ambitions. But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained.
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History. Sociology. Nonfiction. HTML:NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NAMED ONE OF TIMES 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. Just as important, she makes us care.People

A tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.Judges, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 
ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times The Washington Post O: The Oprah Magazine USA Today New York The Miami Herald San Francisco Chronicle Newsday
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.
As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees a fortune beyond counting in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadis most-everything girl, might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal. 
With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first centurys hidden worldsand into the hearts of families impossible to forget. 
WINNER OF: The PEN Nonfiction Award The Los Angeles Times Book Prize The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award The New York Public Librarys Helen Bernstein Book Award
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker People Entertainment Weekly The Wall Street Journal  The Boston Globe The Economist Financial Times Foreign Policy The Seattle Times The Nation St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Denver Post  Minneapolis Star Tribune The Week Kansas City Star  Slate   Publishers Weekly.

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