Books Details
Author : Katherine Boo Pages : 288 pages Publisher : Random House Trade
Paperbacks Language : eng ISBN-10 : 081297932X ISBN-13 : 9780812979329
Books Descriptions
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
