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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Large Print)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - Large Print Author:Katherine Boo Annawadi 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. Abdul‚ a teenager who sorts and sells recyclable airport garbage‚ believes he will lift his family of eleven out of poverty. Then Abdul is falsely accused in a shoc... more »king tragedy; terrorism and recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions turn brutal. In Boo’s riveting book‚ global change is made human.« less