Behind the Beautiful Forevers

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作者简介

凯瑟琳·布(Katherine Boo)

《纽约客杂志》的专职作家。曾任《华盛顿邮报》的记者和编辑,过去二十年都在报导贫困地区、思索社会资源不对等,个人如何摆脱贫困等议题。历年来,她对于底层社会真实生活的报导,为她赢得了麦克阿瑟天才奖、普利策奖、美国国家杂志奖之专题写作奖等殊荣。

译者简介

何佩桦

美国纽约哥伦比亚大学教育学院硕士,曾任大学教师,现旅居北美,专事翻译。译有《伊斯坦布尔:一座城市的记忆》《另类的出口》《西班牙星光之路》《游牧女之歌》《慢船到中国》《夜航西飞》等书。

出版者:Random House
作者:Katherine Boo
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页数:256
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出版时间:2012-2-7
价格:USD 27.00
装帧:Hardcover
isbn号码:9781400067558
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  • 印度 
  • 社会 
  • 英文原版 
  • 非虚构 
  • 社会学 
  • Katherine 
  • 外国文学 
  • 美国 
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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 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 “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption. With a little luck, her sensitive, beautiful daughter—Annawadi’s “most-everything girl”—will soon become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest Annawadians, like Kalu, a fifteen-year-old scrap-metal thief, believe themselves inching closer to the good lives and good times they call “the full enjoy.”

But then Abdul the garbage sorter is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and a global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power and economic envy turn brutal. As the tenderest individual hopes intersect with the greatest global truths, the true contours of a competitive age are revealed. And so, too, are the imaginations and courage of the people of Annawadi.

With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects human beings to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds, and into the lives of people impossible to forget.

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提起贫民窟,很多人首先一定会想到印度,大概是因为电影《贫民窟的百万富翁》的知名度,又或者是时常见诸于媒体的那些触目的照片。 印度,确实是拥有贫民窟最多的国家,仅孟买一地,就有大大小小两千多处贫民窟,这个神秘而混沌的古老国度,因为众多的人口,巨大的贫富差距、残...  

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「在全球资本市场中,微小的期望和不满,使人对共同的困境感到麻痹。穷人并未团结起来,反而为临时性的微薄收益彼此激烈竞争 在整体社会结构中,这种城市底层民众的斗争,仅掀起微弱的涟漪。有钱人的大门偶尔会咯咯作响,却仍未被打破。政客们提拔中产阶级,穷人则干掉彼此。不...  

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作者反反复复询问这样一个问题,为何穷人不反抗,为何不公平的社会不会坍塌? why the poor don't rise up, and why unequal societies don't simply implode 作者的答案:贫民窟的居民具有deep, idiosyncratic intelligence这样的优秀品质,但是他们太穷了,每日为生活所迫,...  

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生活和生存向来都是两件完全不同的事情,当许多人在思考如何将自己的价值扩充到最大化的时候,这个世界依旧有将近十亿的人苦苦挣扎在温饱线以下,而印度几乎囊括了其中大半,从安纳瓦迪到孟买,大多逃难者都寄期望于城市的拯救,然而境况并没有因为努力而变好。 每一座城里都围...  

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合上书后是深深地压抑 来自贫民窟底层人民的生活 整个检查法院警察的腐败更是雪上加霜 “justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens” 很震撼心灵

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用造作的叙述表达自己的观点,感觉还是怪怪的。有时候觉得overinterpretation in my face... 但作者很辛苦……

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直到最后一页,才发现这不是虚构,不是小说,晴天霹雳。

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邂逅:2013.7.flipkart; 旅程:2013.8.3.-2013.8.9.; 地点:家中、坡县; remind me so much of life in bombay. a much better attempt than Bansal. Faithfully brutal and sharp.

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被具体化的贫穷.

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