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BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS

Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity

By Katherine Boo
Random House | HC | 978-1-4000-6755-8 | 288pp. $27.00/$32.00 Can. | Exam Copy: $13.50 Also Available in Audio and e-Book

From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, comes a landmark work that tells an intimate, unforgettable portrait of Indias urban poor who are striving toward a better life in Mumbai, one of the twenty-first centurys great, unequal cities. Based on three years of uncompromising reporting, Boo tells the story of the residents who must contend with political corruption, sex, power, poverty, economic envy, religion, and caste. Author and historian Ramchandra Guha has hailed the book as the best work of narrative non-fiction Ive read in twenty-five years.
A beautiful account . . . of the precarious and powerless in urban India whom a booming country has failed to absorb and integrate. A brilliant book that simultaneously informs, agitates, angers, inspires, and instigates.
Amartya Sen, Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard University, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

This is a superb book.

Tracy Kidder, author of Mountains Beyond Mountains

. . . [O]ne of the most powerful indictments of economic inequality Ive ever read.
Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed

Read the authors note to educators at: http://tiny.cc/87osd

KATHERINE BOO is a sta writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. Her reporting has been awarded a Pulitzer Prize, a MacArthur Genius grant, and a National Magazine Award for Feature Writing. For the last decade, she has divided her time between the United States and India. This is her first book.

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