Rok vydání 2018, angličtina, počet stran 288, brožovanáAnnawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India`s booming future will eventually be theirs.
Informace o Behind the Beautiful Forevers - Katherine Boo (2018, brožovaná bez přebalu lesklá)
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Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport, in the shadow of shining new luxury hotels. Its residents are garbage recyclers and construction workers, economic migrants, all of them living in the hope that a small part of India`s booming future will eventually be theirs. But when a crime rocks the slum community and global recession and terrorism shocks the city, tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy begin to turn brutal.
As Boo gets to know those who dwell at Mumbai`s margins, she evokes an extraordinarily vivid and vigorous group of individuals flourishing against the odds amid the complications, corruptions and gross inequalities of the new India.Annawadi is a slum at the edge of Mumbai Airport. Its residents are garbage recyclers, construction workers and economic migrants, all living in the hope that a better future lies ahead. Boo charts the lives of the residents as crime and a global recession shocks the city, and things get a whole lot worse.
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