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Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, *SIGNED* Great Condition!
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- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller Notes
- “Almost like new signed copy!”
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Personalize
- Yes
- Inscribed
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Features
- Autographed
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Young Adults, Adults
- Signed
- Yes
- Signed By
- katherine Boo
- ISBN
- 9781400067558
- Book Title
- Behind the Beautiful Forevers : Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Item Length
- 9.5 in
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- History, Social Science
- Topic
- Developing & Emerging Countries, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Asia / India & South Asia
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 21.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NAMED ONE OF TIME 'S 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, Annawadi's "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 century's hidden worlds--and 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 Library's 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
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400067553
ISBN-13
9781400067558
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99402073
Product Key Features
Book Title
Behind the Beautiful Forevers : Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Developing & Emerging Countries, Sociology / General, Poverty & Homelessness, Asia / India & South Asia
Publication Year
2012
Genre
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
21.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hv4140.M86b66 2011
Reviews
Praise for Behind the Beautiful Forevers "Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights. There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that." - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc , author of Random Family "I couldn't put Behind the Beautiful Forevers down even when I wanted to-when the misery, abuse and filth that Boo so elegantly and understatedly describes became almost overwhelming. Her book, situated in a slum on the edge of Mumbai's international airport, is one of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality I've ever read . If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it." - Barbara Ehrenreich , author of Nickel and Dimed " A beautiful account , told through real-life stories, of the sorrows and joys, the anxieties and stamina, in the lives of the precarious and powerless in urban India whom a booming country has failed to absorb and integrate. A brilliant book that simultaneously informs, agitates, angers, inspires, and instigates ." - Amartya Sen , Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics "Without question the best book yet written on contemporary India . Also, the best work of narrative nonfiction I've read in twenty-five years." - Ramachandra Guha , author of India After Gandhi "There is a lot to like about this book: the prodigious research that it is built on, distilled so expertly that we hardly notice how much we are being taught; the graceful and vivid prose that never calls attention to itself; and above all, the true and moving renderings of the people of the Mumbai slum called Annawadi. Garbage pickers and petty thieves, victims of gruesome injustice-Ms. Boo draws us into their lives, and they do not let us go. This is a superb book ." - Tracy Kidder , author of Mountains Beyond Mountains and Strength in What Remains From the Hardcover edition., Advance praise for Behind the Beautiful Forevers "Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights. There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that." - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc , author of Random Family "I couldn't put Behind the Beautiful Forevers down even when I wanted to-when the misery, abuse and filth that Boo so elegantly and understatedly describes became almost overwhelming. Her book, situated in a slum on the edge of Mumbai's international airport, is one of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire, this would be it." - Barbara Ehrenreich , author of Nickel and Dimed "A beautiful account, told through real-life stories, of the sorrows and joys, the anxieties and stamina, in the lives of the precarious and powerless in urban India whom a booming country has failed to absorb and integrate. A brilliant book that simultaneously informs, agitates, angers, inspires, and instigates." - Amartya Sen , Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics "Without question the best book yet written on contemporary India. Also, the best work of narrative nonfiction I've read in twenty-five years." - Ramachandra Guha , author of India After Gandhi "There is a lot to like about this book: the prodigious research that it is built on, distilled so expertly that we hardly notice how much we are being taught; the graceful and vivid prose that never calls attention to itself; and above all, the true and moving renderings of the people of the Mumbai slum called Annawadi. Garbage pickers and petty thieves, victims of gruesome injustice-Ms. Boo draws us into their lives, and they do not let us go. This is a superb book." - Tracy Kidder , author of Mountains Beyond Mountains and Strength in What Remains From the Hardcover edition., "Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights. There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that." - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc , author of Random Family "There is a lot to like about this book: the prodigious research that it is built on, distilled so expertly that we hardly notice how much we are being taught; the graceful and vivid prose that never calls attention to itself; and above all, the true and moving renderings of the people of the Mumbai slum called Annawadi. Garbage pickers and petty thieves, victims of gruesome injustice - Ms. Boo draws us into their lives, and they do not let us go. This is a superb book." - Tracy Kidder , author of Mountains Beyond Mountains and Strength in What Remains "I couldn't put Behind the Beautiful Forevers down even when I wanted to-- when the misery, abuse and filth that Boo so elegantly and understatedly describes became almost overwhelming. Her book, situated in a slum on the edge of Mumbai's international airport, is one of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality I've ever read. If Bollywood ever decides to do its own version of The Wire , this would be it." - Barbara Ehrenreich , author of Nickel and Dimed "A beautiful account, told through real-life stories, of the sorrows and joys, the anxieties and stamina, in the lives of the precarious and powerless in urban India whom a booming country has failed to absorb and integrate. A brilliant book that simultaneously informs, agitates, angers, inspires and instigates." - Amartya Sen , Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics "Without question the best book yet written on contemporary India. Also, the best work of narrative nonfiction I've read in twenty-five years." - Ramachandra Guha , author of India After Gandhi From the Hardcover edition.
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Trade
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2011-019555
Dewey Decimal
305.5/690954792
Dewey Edition
23
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