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发表于2024-05-01
Behind the Beautiful Forevers pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 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。
刚从印度出差回来,转机时在孟买待了2天,飞机降落的时候见到了传说中的贫民窟
评分刚从印度出差回来,转机时在孟买待了2天,飞机降落的时候见到了传说中的贫民窟
评分没有太大感觉,不知道是不是同类型的看多了。
评分邂逅: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.
评分对母语人士来说叫文笔好,对咱们来说就有点难,词用的比较高级,句子一般都具有引申意义需要在脑袋里转几个弯才get到,不过总算啃完了。
作者: [美] 凯瑟琳·布 译者:何佩桦 新星出版社 2019年7月27日读完 今年看的又一本非虚构作品,讲述我们的邻国印度孟买机场旁边贫民窟的故事。其实关于贫民窟的故事,之前没有专门看到过,似乎也在不刻意的回避这方面的信息。但看完这本书还是超越了我所有的想象。 其实从...
评分这也许就是我们能做的事情了。 在如实记录了阿布杜一家以及周围人的遭遇后,作者把大头议论放在了最后两章和后记中,提出了对印度贫民窟如此成因的思考和提问。 由于我对社会制度思考比较无力无能。我更倾向于置身阿布杜角色上思考他如何能拜托困境?然而从最初的尚有希望(攒钱...
评分孟买有两千多座大大小小的贫民窟,安纳瓦迪只是其中之一。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”的场所中。用各种拼凑材料临时修建的房屋歪歪斜斜,邻居之间仅隔一面危墙或破布;泥里的污水散发出刺鼻的臭味,一场雨就能把家当冲毁...
评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...
评分Behind the Beautiful Forevers pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024