圖書標籤: 印度 社會 英文原版 非虛構 社會學 Katherine 外國文學 美國
发表于2024-07-12
Behind the Beautiful Forevers pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
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.
作者簡介
凱瑟琳·布(Katherine Boo)
《紐約客雜誌》的專職作傢。曾任《華盛頓郵報》的記者和編輯,過去二十年都在報導貧睏地區、思索社會資源不對等,個人如何擺脫貧睏等議題。曆年來,她對於底層社會真實生活的報導,為她贏得瞭麥剋阿瑟天纔奬、普利策奬、美國國傢雜誌奬之專題寫作奬等殊榮。
譯者簡介
何佩樺
美國紐約哥倫比亞大學教育學院碩士,曾任大學教師,現旅居北美,專事翻譯。譯有《伊斯坦布爾:一座城市的記憶》《另類的齣口》《西班牙星光之路》《遊牧女之歌》《慢船到中國》《夜航西飛》等書。
邂逅:2013.7.flipkart; 旅程:2013.8.3.-2013.8.9.; 地點:傢中、坡縣; remind me so much of life in bombay. a much better attempt than Bansal. Faithfully brutal and sharp.
評分"The gates of the rich, occasionally rattled, remained unbreached. The politicians held forth on the middle class. The poor took down one another, and the world's great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace."
評分沒有太大感覺,不知道是不是同類型的看多瞭。
評分和johns hopkins的教授們吃飯,director推薦瞭這本書。又因為bully的原因,一定想找來讀一下。書寫的很美。印度貧民窟也是一個個有血有肉的小世界。看到因為鄰居汙衊被逮捕的傢人,injustice真是無處不在。幸運的是最終法官還是決定判他們not guilty. 一個本來就貧苦的傢因為公平正義的缺失而支離破碎。以為城市化會帶動他們,讓大多數的人生活更好,但是這好像是一個被遺忘的群體,他們的存在往往被視而不見。不知到怎麼可以改變。
評分適閤很有愛的女性讀者
67 去过印度,第一次看见住在班加罗尔大街上的城市平民,还是非常震惊的,但是比起本书中描写的人们,似乎我见到的那些人还是强多了。在狭小的空间,人们为了仅有的资源殊死争夺,不惜自残和自杀,为了邻居砌墙掉到自己碗里的石块而自焚以陷害邻居一家?为了没有给弟弟做好蛋卷...
評分印度金融中心孟买,与国际机场航站楼入口仅隔一条林荫道,有三千人挤在三百三十五间勉强能称作“房屋”的屋内或屋顶,这里是印度众多贫民窟之一安纳瓦迪——被豪华酒店的大理石建筑包围,由居民临时修建的房屋歪歪斜斜,邻居之间仅隔一面危墙或破布,泥土里的污水散发出刺鼻的...
評分 評分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...
評分One review on Amazon.com said "It's hard book to read, but I highly recommend it." At first sight I thought maybe the reviewer meant the difficult vocabulary, the vocabulary truly is difficult, for the author choose to depict slum life in India, which makes...
Behind the Beautiful Forevers pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024