There have been few books in my life that have stayed with me long after reading them - for instance, To Kill a Mockingbird and Angela's Ashes - and now I will add Behind the Beautiful Forevers to the list (Anne B). I have been inspired by this book (Karen J). Poverty, corruption, racism, economic envy, and brutal indifference toward human life pummel the inhabitants of Annawadi, Mumbai's undercity, yet amazingly, there exist pockets of hope and aspiration. It was not easy to read, yet not easily put down. Some books carry me along, this one pulled. The consensus is in: Katherine Boo's narrative nonfiction about corruption, struggle, and hope in Annawadi, India, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, is very popular with BookBrowse reviewers 30 out of 30 readers rate it 4 or 5 stars! Here's what people are saying: Because his family lacked the floor space for all of its members to lie down, Abdul was asleep on the gritty maidan, which for years had passed as his. A country dizzy now with development and circulating money.ĭawn came gusty, as it often did in January, the month of treed kites and head colds. It was about as hopeful a season as there had ever been in the years since a bitty slum popped up in the biggest city of a country that holds one-third of the planet's poor. Keep rewinding, back seven more months, and stop at an ordinary day in January 2008. See Fatima minutes earlier, dancing on crutches to a raucous love song, her delicate features unscathed. See the flames engulfing a disabled woman in a pink- flowered tunic shrink to nothing but a matchbook on the floor. Rewind, see Abdul running backward, away from the station and the airport, shirt buttons opening as he flies back toward his home. Let it keep, the moment when Officer Fish Lips met Abdul in the police station. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed.
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And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call "the full enjoy."īut then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy terror and a global recession rock the city and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter - Annawadi's "most-everything girl" - will soon become its first female college graduate. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption.
Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.Īnnawadi 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. Winner of the BookBrowse 2012 Best Nonfiction Book Award "8" Different levels in "8" different locations Its your choice whether you choose Action or stealth ( Note : Not all Levels can be played stealth ) "3" Characters to play according to story
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