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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

Behind the Beautiful Forevers( )
Author: Boo, Katherine
ISBN:978-1-921942-44-0
Publication Date:Jan 2012
Publisher:Scribe Publications
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $20.99
Book Description:

WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE

WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the world's most lively but treacherous cities.

Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow...
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Boo, Katherine (Author)
Katherine Boo was born on August 12, 1964 and grew up in the Washington D. C. area. She graduated summa cum laude from Barnard College of Columbia University.

She is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Her reporting from disadvantaged communities has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur "Genius" Grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.

Her first book, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, won the National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012), as well as nonfiction prizes from PEN, the Los Angeles Times Book Awards, the New York Public Library, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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