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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST
NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Based on three years of rigorous reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo’s first book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” tells the stories of residents living in Annawadi, a slum hidden in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. Skinny ...
评分Based on three years of rigorous reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo’s first book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” tells the stories of residents living in Annawadi, a slum hidden in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. Skinny ...
评分Based on three years of rigorous reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo’s first book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” tells the stories of residents living in Annawadi, a slum hidden in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. Skinny ...
评分Based on three years of rigorous reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo’s first book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” tells the stories of residents living in Annawadi, a slum hidden in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. Skinny ...
评分Based on three years of rigorous reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo’s first book “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” tells the stories of residents living in Annawadi, a slum hidden in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. Skinny ...
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我很少遇到一部作品能让我如此强烈地感受到作者对笔下人物的深切关怀，但这种关怀并非盲目的赞美，而是建立在对他们处境的彻底理解之上。文字的密度非常高，每一句话都仿佛经过了千锤百炼，没有一个形容词是白白堆砌的。作者成功地构建了一个既具有地域独特性又蕴含普遍意义的微观宇宙。它像一面高倍放大镜，清晰地展示了在资源极度不平衡的背景下，人性的光辉和阴影是如何并存共生的。读到某些段落时，我甚至能感受到一种物理上的压迫感，仿佛自己也陷在了那种循环往复、难以逃脱的命运网格中。这部作品无疑是沉重的，但它也以一种非常高级的美学方式，将这种沉重转化为一种值得我们深思的力量。
评分我向来对那种宏大叙事下的个体命运描摹情有独钟，而这部小说的独特之处在于，它将这种命运的沉浮浓缩在了极其微小的空间和时间跨度内。叙事视角灵活多变，时而冷静客观如同一台记录仪，时而又渗透着一种深沉的同情，但绝不滥情。这种克制恰到好处，避免了任何将读者推向说教深渊的风险。最让我震撼的是，作者对细节的捕捉达到了惊人的地步，那些看似不经意的对话、一个眼神的交错、一次匆忙的转身，都成为了推动情节发展和揭示人物内心世界的关键节点。它像一部高分辨率的纪录片，强迫你直视那些被主流叙事习惯性忽略的阴影部分。每次合上书本，那种挥之不去的沉重感和对人性复杂面的全新理解都会伴随很久，那种感觉，就像是亲身经历了一场精神上的洗礼，让你对“生活”二字有了更深刻的敬畏。
评分这部作品的叙事张力简直令人窒息，作者以一种近乎冷酷的精准度，剖开了城市肌理下那些被精心掩盖的角落。读完之后，我感觉自己仿佛经历了一场漫长而艰苦的跋涉，穿过了光鲜亮丽的表象，直抵那些真实到令人心痛的日常现实。它不是那种提供简单答案或廉价慰藉的故事，相反，它抛出了一系列关于生存、希望与绝望之间微妙平衡的深刻问题。人物的塑造极其立体，他们的每一次挣扎、每一个微小的胜利，都带着泥土的芬芳和汗水的咸涩。你几乎能闻到空气中弥漫的尘土味，听到那些复杂的人际网络中拉扯的声音。那种底层生活的复杂性，那种在夹缝中求生存的智慧与无奈，被描绘得淋漓尽致，让人在阅读的过程中不断地反思自己所处的环境以及对“美好”的固有认知。这本书需要的不仅仅是阅读，更是一种全身心的沉浸和感受。
评分说实话，我一开始有些担心题材的沉重会让人难以承受，但作者的笔触远比我想象的要精妙和有力。它没有一味地渲染悲惨，反而通过人物的韧性和他们之间微妙的互助关系，展现了一种令人动容的生命力。那种生命力不是来自于外界的馈赠，而是从内部艰难地生长出来，带着一种野蛮的生命本能。文字的节奏感极强，有时是急促而混乱的，仿佛印证了人物生活环境的无序；有时又突然放缓，聚焦于一个瞬间的宁静，那种对比极具张力。我特别欣赏作者在构建世界观时所展现出的那种百科全书式的知识储备，使得故事的背景既真实可信，又具有强烈的象征意义。它不仅仅是一个关于某个地方的故事，更像是一个关于现代社会结构如何塑造个体心灵的寓言。
评分这本书的阅读体验是多层次的，第一次读，你会被故事的戏剧性所吸引；第二次重读，你会开始注意到那些精妙的结构设计和反复出现的主题母题。它在叙事技巧上展现出的成熟度令人赞叹，尤其是在处理多线索叙事时，所有的线索最终都汇聚到一个令人心碎又醍醐灌顶的交汇点，没有任何一处是多余的赘笔。那种对社会阶层固化和流动性缺失的探讨，是如此的隐晦却又如此的尖锐，它没有使用任何激烈的控诉性语言，却比任何口号都更有力量。读完后，我感觉自己对“希望”这个词有了全新的定义——希望不再是一种虚无的期盼，而是在最不可能的环境下，人类精神为自己创造出的短暂光亮。对于任何想深入了解当代社会复杂性的读者来说，这都是一本不可错过的文本。
评分终于可以认真写论文了=。=# Indeed, these people live in unimaginable hardship—no matter how bad you could imagine, it’s worse. But don’t look at them as they are faces of poverty. They are human beings like you and me. They love. They hate. They dream. They desire. They have ambitions. They want a better life and they work for it.
评分终于可以认真写论文了=。=# Indeed, these people live in unimaginable hardship—no matter how bad you could imagine, it’s worse. But don’t look at them as they are faces of poverty. They are human beings like you and me. They love. They hate. They dream. They desire. They have ambitions. They want a better life and they work for it.
评分终于可以认真写论文了=。=# Indeed, these people live in unimaginable hardship—no matter how bad you could imagine, it’s worse. But don’t look at them as they are faces of poverty. They are human beings like you and me. They love. They hate. They dream. They desire. They have ambitions. They want a better life and they work for it.
评分终于可以认真写论文了=。=# Indeed, these people live in unimaginable hardship—no matter how bad you could imagine, it’s worse. But don’t look at them as they are faces of poverty. They are human beings like you and me. They love. They hate. They dream. They desire. They have ambitions. They want a better life and they work for it.
评分终于可以认真写论文了=。=# Indeed, these people live in unimaginable hardship—no matter how bad you could imagine, it’s worse. But don’t look at them as they are faces of poverty. They are human beings like you and me. They love. They hate. They dream. They desire. They have ambitions. They want a better life and they work for it.
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