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 listener headlong into one of the 21st 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. In this 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.Īs India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. One of the 10 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. With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the 21st century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.Named one of Time’s 10 best nonfiction books of the decade. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed.
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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.”īut then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy terror and a global recession rock the city and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter-Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”-will soon become its first female college graduate. 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. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human.Īnnawadi 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. 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 21st century’s great, unequal cities.
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