In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport[...]
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport[...]
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport[...]
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From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, 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 twenty-first century's great, unequal cities.
In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based o[...]
From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, 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 twenty-first century's great, unequal cities.
In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based o[...]
A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might write about India.[...]
A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might write about India.[...]
En av fjorårets store dokumentarsuksesser internasjonalt - en rystende fortelling fra Mumbais dypeste slumAnnawadi-slummen ligger i skyggen av luksushotellene ved Mumbais flyplass. Det er et sted med bunnløs fattigdom og hjerteskjærende skjebner, men Indias sterke økonomiske vekst tenner håp ho[...]
âSkal læses! Mumbais slum fremstillet og forstået på en helt ny måde i et intenst smukt sprogâ â Salman Rushdie
Asha er dronning af slummen, teenageren Abdul lever af at videresælge de riges affald â og sammen er de to af hovedpersonerne i en sand og inspirerende [...]
I slumområdet Annawadi utanför Mumbais flygplats gror framtidstron när Indiens ekonomi går upp på högvarv. Tonåringen Abdul ser en förmögenhet i avfallet från hotellen bredvid. Han har förmågan att överblicka soporna och snabbt avgöra vad som är väsentligt, vad som kan säljas och va[...]
Talouskasvustaan huumaantuneen Intian sydämessä yhteiskunnan vähäosaiset sinnittelevät hankkiakseen edes jokapäiväisen leipänsä. Mumbain lentokentän luksushotellien liepeille kasvaneessa Annawadin slummissa nuori Abdul tonkii rottia kuhisevia jätteitä ja taistelee kierrätykseen kelpaava[...]