Behind the beautiful forevers.- Boo, Katherine

Random House. 2011. 25 cm. xxii, 256 p. Encuadernación en tapa dura de editorial con sobrecubierta ilustrada. Idioma Inglés. Dust jacket title:. 1st ed. The dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving toward a better life in one of the twenty-first century s great, unequal cities. In this fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human. 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 fortune in the recyclable garbage of richer people. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a rural childhood, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to good times. But then, as the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. --From publisher description .