Katherine Boo Boeken

Examines and provides real-life accounts of urban poor families living in Bombay, India.

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

Pulitzerpreisträgerin Katherine Boo erzählt die Geschichten der Menschen, die in Annawadi, einem der Slums von Mumbai, leben. Eng ist es hier und schmutzig. Die Slumbewohner kämpfen um das nackte Überleben. Nur mit dem Sammeln von Müll lässt sich ein wenig Geld verdienen. Und doch: Sie geben die Hoffnung auf eine bessere Zukunft nicht auf.