Behind the Beautiful Forevers

书名：Behind the Beautiful ForeversLife,Death,andHopeinaMumbaiUndercity
作者：KatherineBoo
译者：
ISBN：9781400067558
出版社：RandomHouse
出版时间：2012-2-7
格式：epub/mobi/azw3/pdf
页数：256
豆瓣评分： 8.7

书籍简介：

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.

作者简介：

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。

书友短评：

@ 黑 一.比尔·盖茨推荐的佳作！作者用三年多时间亲身记录印度最大城市、金融中心孟买机场旁一个叫作Annawadi的贫民窟人民的生活。居民大多以拾荒为生，2008年时一天工作14小时只能挣100卢比！二. 警察们让自焚的Fatima作伪证，这样他们可以勒索Husain一家。此书将印度司法体系的黑暗暴露得淋漓尽致：恐吓、勒索、受贿、贪污无处不在！远离小人，免得惹得一身骚，好在Husain一家最后得到了公正的判决！三.Sonu对Sunil说他应坚持上学：“我们该用知识武装自己，这样只要有垃圾的地方我们都可以挣钱！”可怜小孩眼里的世界 四.穷人死后警察不调查，随便安个死因就草草结案，因为此类调查不会给他们带来利益。文明社会的标志之一就是穷人也能活得有尊严！五.穷人们很在乎投票权，这几乎是他们唯一的权利！ @ 横滨流星 好几年前就知道这本书，借着最近的劲头看完了。象征国力的机场和酒店旁边是破败的贫民窟，不同年龄段的孩子牵扯进了无法控制和理解的腐败、基层管理、谋杀、判刑，酒店的标语beautiful forever显得无比讽刺。当然，孟买的这个贫民窟，也只是一个缩影罢了。在极大的贫富差距中寻求机会未果，这些孩子最终会变成他们儿时不能理解的麻木的人。看到豆瓣上给这本书标签为non-fictional narrative. 毕竟以“转述”的形式达到“论述”的目的，没法单单从体裁上去评价。作者自己也意识到这其中的shortage. 作者的语言比较晦涩，一开始很难读进去，坚持第二个part就好了。

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