Katherine Boo: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Cover: 9781846274510 | Behind the Beautiful Forevers | Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

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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"

Über den Autor

Katherine Boo is an investigative journalist focusing on matters of poverty and opportunity. A contributor to the New Yorker magazine since 2001, she was previously a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. Among the honours her work has received are a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, a National Magazine Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This, her first book, won the 2012 National Book Award for Non-Fiction and the PEN/Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2013
Genre:	Importe , Soziologie
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	256 S.
ISBN-13:	9781846274510
ISBN-10:	1846274516
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Boo, Katherine
Hersteller:	Granta Publications Portobello Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	198 x 128 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Katherine Boo
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.02.2013
Gewicht:	0,208 kg