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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
By Boo, Katherine
- ISBN
- 9781400067558
- Publisher
- Random
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Reviewed on February 15, 2012 | Social Sciences
This is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Boo's (The New Yorker) first book. She takes a look at the stark lives of the inhabitants of Annawadi, a slum across from Mumbai's Sahar Airport, to reveal the wrenching inequality and urban poverty still endemic in India's democracy. Using recorded and videotaped conversations, interviews, documents, and the assistance of ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
