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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Behind the Beautiful Forevers Life Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Katherine Boo, Sunil Malhotra (Narrator) From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century’s great, unequal cities. — In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a ... more »bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.
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 reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. 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. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter -- Annawadi’s "most-everything girl" -- will soon become its first female college graduate. 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."
Unabridged, read by Sunil Malhotra, includes author's note read by the author, 7 CDs, 8 hours, 16 minutes.« less