Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum. Winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 2013
(Sprache: Englisch)
A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might write about India.
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A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might write about India.
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Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all living in the hope that a better future lies ahead. Boo charts the lives of the residents as crime and a global recession shocks the city, and things get a whole lot worse... 'One's first reaction is disbelief followed by stunned silence' "Times"Autoren-Porträt von Katherine Boo
Katherine Boo schreibt fest angestellt beim 'New Yorker'. Ihre Arbeit wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem Mac Arthur 'Genius' Grant, dem National Magazine Award for Feature Writing und dem Pulitzer Prize. In den letzten zehn Jahren pendelte sie zwischen Indien und den USA.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Katherine Boo
- 2013, 288 Seiten, Maße: 12,8 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Granta Books
- ISBN-10: 1846274516
- ISBN-13: 9781846274510
Sprache:
Englisch
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"[An] exquisitely accomplished first book. Novelists dream of defining characters this swiftly and beautifully, but Ms. Boo is not a novelist. She is one of those rare, deep-digging journalists who can make truth surpass fiction, a documentarian with a superb sense of human drama. She makes it very easy to forget that this book is the work of a reporter. .... Comparison to Dickens is not unwarranted." --Janet Maslin, "The New York Times" "A jaw-dropping achievement, an instant classic of narrative nonfiction...With a cinematic intensity...Boo transcends and subverts every cliche, cynical or earnest, that we harbor about Indian destitution and gazes directly into the hearts, hopes, and human promise of vibrant people whom you'll not soon forget." --"Elle " "Riveting, fearlessly reported....["Beautiful Forevers"]""plays out like a swift, richly plotted novel. That's partly because Boo writes so damn well. But it's also because over the course of three years in India she got extraordinary access to the lives and minds of the Annawadi slum, a settlement nestled jarringly close to a shiny international airport and a row of luxury hotels. Grade: A." --"Entertainment Weekly" "A tough-minded, inspiring, and irresistible book ... Boo's extraordinary achievement is twofold. She shows us how people in the most desperate circumstances can find the resilience to hang on to their humanity. Just as importantly, she makes us care." --"People" (four stars) "Extraordinary." --"The New York Times Book Review" "A shocking--and riveting--portrait of life in modern India. ... This is one stunning piece of narrative nonfiction ... Boo's prose is electric." --"O," The Oprah Magazine "Gripping...A brilliant novelistic narration." -"Wall Street Journal " "Moving.... a humane, powerful and insightful book....A book of nonfiction so stellar it puts most novels to shame." -- "Boston Globe" "A mind-blowing re
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