Behind the Beautiful Forevers

by Boo, Katherine

• ISBN13: 9781410446763
• ISBN10: 141044676X
• Edition: Large
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-02-15
• Publisher: Thorndike Pr

Summary

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. But then terror and a global recession rock the city and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi. Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader into a hidden world, and into the lives of people impossible to forget. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Between Roses	p. 9
Undercitizens	p. 31
Annawadi	p. 33
Asha	p. 54
Sunil	p. 76
Manju	p. 106
The Business of Burning	p. 135
Ghost House	p. 137
The Hole She Called a Window	p. 157
The Come-Apart	p. 179
The Master	p. 207
A Little Wildness	p. 233
Marquee Effect	p. 235
. Parrots, Caught and Sold	p. 261
Proper Sleep	p. 282
Up And Out	p. 295
Nine Nights of Dance	p. 297
Something Shining	p. 317
The Trial	p. 333
Ice	p. 353
Black and White	p. 365
A School, a Hospital, a Cricket Field	p. 383
Author's Note	p. 401
Acknowledgments	p. 415
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