Katherine Boo: 4 books
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
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....
by Katherine Boo
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Eleito entre os 10 melhores livros de 2012 por: • The New York Times • The Washington Post • O: The Oprah Magazine • USA Today • The Miami Herald • San Francisco Chronicle e Newsday; Prefácio escrito pelo jornalista Zéca Camargo. Em Busca de um Final Feliz, é um livro brilhantemente...
Annawadi
Vie, mort et espoir dans un bidonville de Mumbai
Language: French
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Le livre
National Book Award 2012
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award 2013
À Annawadi, bidonville qui jouxte l’aéroport international de Mumbai, 3 000 personnes s’entassent dans quelque 300 masures étayées de ruban adhésif et de cordes. Avec Abdul, jeune trieur de déchets...
by Katherine Boo
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Annawadi ist ein Slum jenseits des luxuriösen Flughafens von Mumbai. Hier wohnen Tausende Menschen in notdürftig errichteten Hütten. Eng ist es hier und schmutzig. Und nicht selten fallen hungrige Ratten nachts über die Kinder her. In Annawadi lebt Abdul, der Müllsammler. Dass er geschickt ist...