09822cam a2200637 4500 235363741 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780679643951 0679643958 B004J4X7JO Amazon f1f68eea-c0d3-4aac-a420-c15be18c1210 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 16017 626555 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Boo, Katherine. Behind the Beautiful Forevers [Bridges eBook] : Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity. Random House Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2616kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:In this brilliant, 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. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi's "most-everything girl," might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. 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. 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 reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century's hidden worlds--and into the hearts of families impossible to forget. Winner of the National Book Award | The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award | The Los Angeles Times Book Prize | The American Academy of Arts and Letters Award | The New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times <ul> <li>The Washington Post</li> <li>O: The Oprah Magazine</li> <li>USA Today</li> <li>New York</li> <li>The Miami Herald</li> <li>San Francisco Chronicle</li> <li>Newsday NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New Yorker</li> <li>People</li> <li>Entertainment Weekly</li> <li>The Wall Street Journal • The Boston Globe</li> <li>The Economist</li> <li>Financial Times</li> <li>Newsweek/The Daily Beast</li> <li>Foreign Policy</li> <li>The Seattle Times</li> <li>The Nation</li> <li>St. Louis Post-Dispatch</li> <li>The Denver Post</li> <li>Minneapolis Star Tribune</li> <li>Salon</li> <li>The Plain Dealer</li> <li>The Week</li> <li>Kansas City Star • Slate • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A book of extraordinary intelligence [and] humanity . . . beyond groundbreaking."--Junot Díaz, The New York Times Book Review "Reported like Watergate, written like Great Expectations, and handily the best international nonfiction in years."--New York "This book is both a tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece."--Judges' Citation for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award "[A] landmark book."--The Wall Street Journal "A triumph of a book."--Amartya Sen "There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them."--Adrian Nicole LeBlanc "[A] stunning piece of narrative nonfiction . . . [Katherine] Boo's prose is electric."--O: The Oprah Magazine "Inspiring, and irresistible . . . 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 important, she makes us care."--People</li> </ul>. HTML:"Incandescent writing and excruciatingly good storytelling."--The Philadelphia Inquirer "Outstanding."--USA Today "A richly detailed tapestry of tragedy and triumph told by a seemingly omniscient narrator with an attention to detail that reads like fiction while in possession of the urgent humanity of nonfiction."--Los Angeles Times "Rends the heart, thrills the mind, pricks the conscience, and burns the pages.". HTML:Washingtonian. HTML:"Riveting, fearlessly reported . . . [Behind the 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.". HTML:Entertainment Weekly. "[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.". HTML: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 cliché, 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.". HTML:Elle. "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.". HTML:People (four stars.) HTML:"Seamless and intimate . . . a scrupulously true story . . . It's tempting to compare [Behind the Beautiful Forevers] to a novel, but . . . that would hardly do it justice.". HTML:Salon. "An unforgettable true story, meticulously researched with unblinking honesty . . . pure, astonishing reportage with as unbiased a lens as possible.". HTML:The Christian Science Monitor. "A shocking--and riveting--portrait of life in modern India . . . This is one stunning piece of narrative nonfiction. . . . Boo's prose is electric.". HTML:O: The Oprah Magazine. "Moving . . . a humane, powerful and insightful book . . . a book of nonfiction so stellar it puts most novels to shame.". HTML:The Boston Globe. HTML:"A book of extraordinary intelligence [and] humanity . . . beyond groundbreaking.". HTML:Junot Díaz, The New York Times Book Review. "This book is both a tour de force of social justice reportage and a literary masterpiece.". Judges' Citation for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award. HTML:"Reported like Watergate, written like Great Expectations, and handily the best international nonfiction in years.". HTML:New York. HTML:"The most riveting Indian story since Slumdog Millionaire--except hers is true.". HTML:Marie Claire. "[A] landmark book.". HTML:The Wall Street Journal. "A mind-blowing read.". HTML:Redbook. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: eBook. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist. The New York Times Best Seller List. Notable Books for Adults. Pulitzer Prize Finalist. 10 Best Books of 2012. National Book Award. 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