Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Resumen del libro

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.

Biografía del autor

Katherine Boo es redactora de The New Yorker y ha sido periodista y editora de The Washington Post. Su trabajo ha merecido un premio Pulitzer, una beca MacArthur "Genius" y el National Magazine Award for Feature Writing al mejor reportaje periodístico. En los últimos diez años ha vivido a caballo entre Estados Unidos e India. Éste es su primer libro.