We don’t know if it is a best seller book, but we are sure it is the best fiction book of 2012. We are talking about Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity by Katherine Boo.
The story her author told, speaks in a clear terms of radical changes of twenty first century, an age made of deep conflicts and contradictions. This book tells about Asha and a muslem teenager called Abdul.
They live by using the things that are needless for rich persons. They come from Annawady, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and hope that India development can bring them some luck. Then, various episodes of life take the characters to live different experience and choices.
Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy, while Annawadians understand as is possible to get everything by using their fascinating and beautiful daughters. After a childhood very hard and lived in complete poverty, Annawadians girls find a better life, but it is only appearance arising from politic corruption and lies. In the meanwhile, the world goes toward great changings that reveals its true face.
This book takes the readers along the world’s secrets, but also inside the hidden side of our life and heart, where even in evil presence it is always possible a rapid redemption.
We can’t tell all the book, because this great work deserves to be read as soon as possible. “Behind the beautiful forevers” was released on February 7, 2012 and has 288 pages.
It need to remember that the book’s author is winner of Pullitzer Prize. The book is available in paperback, hardcover and e-book and its price is enough convenient.
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