Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

by Katherine Boo

A$30 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

New York. Random House. 2012. Stock ID #175486 xxiii + 298pp, spine little faded, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport and, as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees 'a fortune beyond counting' in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw

• Binding: Hardcover

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