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Behind the beautiful forevers
Authors:
Katherine Boo
Material type:
Books
Language:
English
Publisher:
Year:
2012
Call number:
305.569
ISBN:
9781400067558 (alk. paper)
1400067553 (alk. paper)
User Tags:
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Number of copies the library owns or has ordered:
2
Number of hold requests for this title:
1
Location
Collection
Call#
Status
Due
Main Library
Adult Nonfiction
305.569 BOO
Checked out
Jun 12, 2013
Main Library
Adult Nonfiction
305.569 BOO
Checked out
May 30, 2013
Summary
Fiction & Biography
Table of Contents
Summary
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Boo comes 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.
Fiction & Biography
Topics:
Urban development
City life
Poverty
Social conditions
Social classes
Sociology
Politics
Locations:
Mumbai
India
Asia
Settings:
Urban
Slum
Timeframes:
21st century
Genres:
NonFiction
Historical
Political
Sociological
Table of Contents
Prologue: between roses
ix
Part 1 undercitizens
1 Annawadi
3
2 Asha
17
3 Sunil
31
4 Manju
50
Part 2 the business of burning
5 Ghost House
71
6 The Hole She Called a Window
84
7 The Come-Apart
99
8 The Master
117
Part 3 a little wildness
9 . Marquee Effect
135
10 Parrots, Caught and Sold
152
11 Proper Sleep
166
Part 4 up and out
12 Nine Nights of Dance
177
13 Something Shining
190
14 The Trial
200
15 Ice
213
16 Black and White
221
17 A School, a Hospital, a Cricket Field
233
Author's Note
247
Acknowledgments
255