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Boo, Katherine.
Behind the beautiful forevers
[Book] :
life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity /
Katherine Boo.
1st ed.
New York :
Random House,
2011.
256 p ;
23 cm.
Subtitle from verso.
Prologue: between roses -- Undercitizens -- Annawadi -- Asha -- Sunil -- Manju -- The business of burning -- Ghost house -- A hole she called a window -- A come-apart -- The master -- Market city -- Marquee effect -- Parrots, caught and sold -- Proper sleep -- Up and out -- Nine nights of dance -- Something shining -- The trial -- Ice -- Black and white -- A school, a hospital, a cricket field.
Profiles everyday life in the settlement of Annawadi as experienced by a Muslim teen, an ambitious rural mother, and a young scrap metal thief, illuminating how their efforts to build better lives are challenged by religious, caste, and economic tensions.
20120208.
Urban poor
India
Mumbai.
Bombay (India)
Economic conditions
21st century.