Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. 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. Its resid… Celý popis ↓
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. 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. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs.
Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all living in the hope that a better future lies ahead. 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.Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport. 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"
Parametre
- Autor
- Katherine Boo
- Jazyk
- anglické
- Váha
- 200 g
- Väzba
- Brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá
- Rok vydania
- 2018
Podobné produkty
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
The Forevers
The Forevers
Forevers
Mouthful of Forevers
The Beautiful
The Beautiful
Behind the Masks
The Bear Behind
Behind the Wall
The Beautiful
Behind the Candelabra
Behind the Net
The Beautiful Struggle
Behind the Beyond
