Must read for people who have visited India I have been to India quite a few times on business and have wondered how life is in the slums that pass by the window. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. when you spend $25 on participating products. This book was not for me. I expected there to be some "hope" in the book (after all, the title is "behind the beautiful forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity), but there was absolutely none. Sympathetic yet objective and eloquently rendered. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity. The novel then skips backward to January of 2008, seven months before the burning. Title. Read only if you want to be depressed. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. Behind the beautiful forevers : life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity / Katherine Boo. Please try again. Something went wrong. Firstly was the lack of context and a wider view. Behind the Beautiful Forevers Summary The story starts with a prologue, in the year 2008 in Mumbai, when a teenaged boy named Abdul runs from the police. These promotions will be applied to this item: Some promotions may be combined; others are not eligible to be combined with other offers. Prime members enjoy FREE Delivery and exclusive access to music, movies, TV shows, original audio series, and Kindle books. I laughed at the ironic scene when one of the inhabitants is investigated for cruelty to his horses and the slum is visited by the Protection for Animals league who set up a protest, while the people of the slum watch in bewilderment since the horses had received better treatment than they ever had. p. cm. Should be: Life, death, and HOPELESSNESS in a Mumbai undercity, Reviewed in the United States on October 22, 2019. This is an astonishing book which I finished in two sittings. In the prologue we meet Abdul Hussain, a teenager who scratches a living for his family by sorting scrap scavenged by his neighbours and selling it for recycling. I had two problems with this otherwise excellent book. I. Mirchi was impatiently awaiting his best friend, Rahul, a Hindu boy who lived a few huts away, and who had become an Annawadi celebrity. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism shocks the city, tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy begin to turn brutal. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2016. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity - Ebook written by Katherine Boo. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. For details, please see the Terms & Conditions associated with these promotions. You have to marinate in the difference to become aware of it, and then adopt the difference to understand it. It even mentioned some charity aid which was in the hands of corruption. It won the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize among many others. For Behind the Beautiful Forevers, journalist Katherine Boo spent three years in Annawadi recording the lives of its residents. Behind The Beautiful Forevers. It even mentioned some charity aid which was in the hands of corruption. It follows the interconnected liv… Everywhere. There was an error retrieving your Wish Lists. Please try again. Granta Books; 0 edition (February 23, 2012). You know, those. The people that Katherine Boo interviewed were poor beyond the comprehension of us in the west. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. I cried at the lack of humanity and kindness or sympathy shown to the slum dwellers who do not even seem to be regarded as part of human life and therefore the brutal murders of young people or the suicides of those with no hope are of no concern to the rich and those in power. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. The subtitle - "Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum" - and the cover (of my copy), a young boy sprinting up steps into bright sunlight, made me think it might be another of those. This month, Rahul had done what Mirchi dreamed of: broken the … Based on truth about life in one of Mumbai's slums that borders Mumbai's sumptuous new airport and the Hyatt Hotel, this book is humbling. The focus is very narrow (claustrophobic, even), with no attempt to explain the larger forces at work which keep so many people trapped in grinding poverty. An astonishing account of heartbreak, humanity and hope, Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2014. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2014. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India's booming future will eventually be theirs. It took me three years before I felt that I had a grasp on the rhythm and flow of the community I was living in, including the styles of communication (nonverbal communication, decoding indirectness), the practice of saving face, concepts of time, concepts of power, attitudes towards uncertainty, family life, the boundaries of friendship, decision-making when living in extreme poverty, etc. I laughed at the ironic scene when one of the inhabitants is investigated for cruelty to his horses and the slum is visited by the Protection for Animals league who set up a protest, while the people of the slum watch in bewilderment since the horses had received better treatment than they ever had. There is no hope. Unable to add item to List. The main focus of the book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo is the poor locality in the region of Mumbai, India including an “undercity”. The way they just get on with the life they've got!" stephensmth48 , 02/26/2012. Bribes, bribes, bribes. Behind the Beautiful Forevers describes life in the Annawadi slum in India, close to Mumbai’s international airport. There's a problem loading this menu right now. From her uncompromising book, David Hare has fashioned a tumultuous play on an epic scale. These people were not however, passive victims, but the tragedy is that all their hard work and ingenuity could only gain them an extra few pence per day. Bribes, bribes, bribes. BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS Synopsis. --Junot Diaz, "The New York Times Book Review ", While the distance between rich and poor is growing in the U.S., the gap between the haves and have-nots in India is staggering to behold. …. The sights, the smells! Comparison to Dickens is not unwarranted.”, "A book of extraordinary intelligence [and] humanity . Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2013, I must confess I picked this book up with some trepidation. We complain of things like inequality and pollution, which are important, but that pale in comparison … The novel opens with a prologue that introduces Abdul, a garbage sorter in the Mumbai slum of Annawadi. Novelists dream of defining characters this swiftly and beautifully, but Ms. Boo is not a novelist. Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. I expected there to be some "hope" in the book (after all, the title is "behind the beautiful forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity), but there was absolutely none. Even those who were above subsistence levels couldn't protect their babies from rat bites, nor could they expect any security from a corrupt state. Offers. Unable to add item to List. In the prologue we meet Abdul Hussain, a teenager who scratches a living for his family by sorting scrap scavenged by his neighbours and selling it for recycling. You have to marinate in the difference to become aware of it, and then adopt the difference to understand it. It took me three years before I felt that I had a grasp on the rhythm and flow of the community I was living in, including the styles of communication (nonverbal communication, decoding indirectness), the practice of saving face, concepts of time, concepts of power, attitudes towards uncertainty, family life, the boundaries of friendship, decision-making when living in extreme poverty, etc. Please try again. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. I wonder what happened to these people since the book was written. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. ", Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 13, 2017. The corruption was mind blowing. "So life-affirming! Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 22, 2013, I must confess I picked this book up with some trepidation. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. behind the beautiful forevers LIFE, DEATH, AND HOPE IN A MUMBAI UNDERCITY by Katherine Boo ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 7, 2012 Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity has a blurb even longer than its title. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. She makes it very easy to forget that this book is the work of a reporter. Behind The Beautiful Forevers: An Introduction Katherine Boo’s first book, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, details the lives of the citizens of Annawadi, a small slum in Mumbai, India. For the last decade, she has divided her time between the United States and India. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 2, 2014. While Behind the Beautiful Forevers describes in specific detail life in a makeshift community neighboring the Mumbai India international airport, it explains what poverty looks like, feels like and how it shapes the lives of millions who live without any basic resources, including shelter, water and … Reviewed in the United States on August 5, 2016. There is so much difference. The post-Slumdog reportage. Very sad and depressing. Behind the Beautiful Forevers describes the life in Annawadi – a slum that has emerged on a marshy, unusable land that belongs to Mumbai Airport. That’s partly because Boo writes so damn well. Please try again. In the prologue we meet Abdul Hussain, a teenager who scratches a living for his family by sorting scrap scavenged by his neighbours and selling it for recycling. Terms & conditions associated with these promotions book, David Hare in 2014, shown National. Was written our system considers things like how recent a review is if. 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