Pulitzer Prize In this brilliant, 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.
Winner of the National Book Award - The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith 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 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 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 - Newsweek/The Daily Beast - Foreign Policy - The Seattle T.
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.
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.
And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams.
With a little luck, her Beautiful daughter, Annawadi\'s "most-everything girl," might become its first female college graduate.
Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class.
Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away.
As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope.
Pulitzer Prize In this brilliant, 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
