And I couldn't go through with it because it was a question I couldn't answer. There are 100s (thousands?) The crisp writing aims to punch you in the guts as the unrelenting sequence of misery and death unfolds page after page. I didn’t know what I was looking at, or more aptly, looking for – of course, there was this wall ahead, 3 feet ahead – but I wasn’t looking at it; I was looking for ‘faces’; faces that I’ve imagined floating between my eyes and the pages of the book while I was reading it; faces that don’t resemble anyone I know, but faces that might resemble closely with the people living right now, even a. Stare. Despair of this sprawling epic. Shall I strip naked and dance for you now?'" Start by marking “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity” as Want to Read: Error rating book. For a long time and four months Boo chronicled the ordinary battles of a few people unlawfully squatting inside the cramped quarters possessed by the Mumbai Airport Authority. So instead of me telling you what the book is about (there's a synopsis) or acting like an expert on poverty (which I am not), I'll offer a list. The substance also left me dissatisfied. I was suspicious, at first, of this familiarity, her meticulous scene-setting, her blurring the line between interviewees and "characters" in a story. Covent Garden Odeon, London March 12, 2015. To get the latest news, reviews, interviews, new show alerts and ticket offers, sign up to our weekly newsletter The family of six has to do with a makeshift shanty to prevent them from drowning in the dense showers of late night rains. It’s been a distressful morning. His tardiness has got me a bit worried on missing my blow-dry appointment. Behind The Beautiful Forevers is a commendable attempt to dramatize a topical non-fiction story on a grand, Dickensian scale. I was left hanging and this was extremely unsatisfying. For the last decade, she has divided her time between the United States and India, the birthplace of her husband, Sunil Khilnani. An Introduction Katherine Boo’s first book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers”, points of interest the lives of the nationals of Annawadi, a little slum in Mumbai, India. A much hyped book - I had heard and read a lot about it including high praise from some usually trusty sources. Troublesome as it is for a detour to the supermarket for packaged milk, my domestic help decided to cal. I struggled a lot with how to review this because it's hard to separate the quality of the book from how it made me feel. I listened to the audiobook narrated perfectly by Sunil Malhorta. The first time allows you to listen to the details of the individuals and judge their validity. I'd seen the slums from the air, as we descended into Mumbai airport. Welcome back. The reportage is thorough and passionate and careful and what it does best is reveal both the simplicity and complexity of absolute poverty. I had read that this book was well-written and would probably win some awards, which is why I picked it up. I found it disjointed and strangely unaffecting for most of its length, and even boring some of the time. "Every country has its myths," she says, "and one that successful Indians liked to indulge was a romance of instability and adaptation – the idea that India's rapid rise derived in part from the chaotic unpredictability of daily life." Though this book is set in a Mumbai slum, it could be about nearly any place in the Third World. Well, here’s a nice irony, to be reading this in the week that the results of a UNICEF survey reveal that one in seven German children and young people are unhappy, dissatisfied with their life or situation. Mercifully, my chauffeur seems to have escaped from any such problematic liabilities. There's a lot to say about this book and a lot to think about. BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS LIFE, DEATH, AND HOPE IN A MUMBAI UNDERCITY. Favorite quote from the author: Mumbai is one of the world’s biggest and most complicated cities. She learned to report at the alternative weekly, Washington City Paper, after which she worked as a writer and co-editor of The Washington Monthly magazine. Germany ranks only 22nd in the category ‘life satisfaction’ . You simply cannot walk away untouched. The family of six has to do with a makeshift shanty to prevent them from drowning in the dense showers of late night rains. I would suggest that you buy the book without comparing it with any of your previous reads! The corruption Boo details, corruption so deeply embedded at all levels of Indian society, is almost unbearable to read about but this information is shared without judgment and revealed, particularly for the residents of the Mumbai slum where Boo was embedded, as the only potential way out, however dim that potential might be. Just from $10/Page. I wish I had a happy answer. I first listened to an abridged version of this book and was intrigued. For most of us, an image or a vignette would be enough to make us feel a bit of pity and turn away. Boo, in letting go of her story, in dwelling with it relatively briefly in her book's 250 pages (in contrast to the years she spent with the slum-dwellers), allows it to resonate with us as a small classic of contemporary writing. London Theater Review: ‘Behind the Beautiful Forevers’ National Theatre, London; 1,160 seats; £35, $110 top. It’s a great adaptation of a true story, pulsing with theatricality and human spirit. I am absolutely amazed at the way she was able to get into the hearts and minds of those she studied. Stare straight. The first time allows you to listen to the details of the individuals and j. While it started on a promising note and held my attention until about the halfway mark, I could sense a growing disappointment with both style and substance. In spite of their loss of dreams and position, I was impressed by the resilience of most. And this, in turn, produces a paradoxical masterfulness; we see that it isn't information or research that Boo is bringing to us, but a quality of attention. Saturday 02 June 2012 17:13. Her plausible rebuttal had me wondering what its Hindi or Marathi original might have been. Behind the Beautiful Forevers feels like a mixture of a challenging film documentary and a superior TV soap with a good story line, which may not be what you’d expect to hear about the latest play by David Hare, one of the UK National Theatre’s star playwrights. The story focuses, principally, on three families. Posted February 15th 2012 at 7:55 am by Alpita Masurkar in Book Reviews, Immigration and Migration Book Review: Behind the Beautiful Forevers. Wow! I found it disjointed and strangely unaffecting for most of its length, and even boring some of the time. Docudrama meets quality soap opera in David Hare’s latest truth commission. One sensed the goings-on and exchanges inside them as one would a foreign world, without completely understanding what was being said, in spite of (unlike Boo) knowing the language. I listened to the audiobook narrated perfectly by Sunil Malhorta. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is the story of Abdul (and about a hundred other residents -- try keeping all of them straight) and his life in Annawadi, an illegal settlement of trash, sewage and corruption outside the Mumbai airport. Like the imperial monuments of the past, the airport always exists in the background, a crushing symbol. A review of the 2012 book Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo in which she talks about life and dreams in a Mumbai Slum. Words are exchanged, then insults, in public; this relatively minor occurrence of fractiousness leads to life-changing decisions. 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. Based on the best-selling book by Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a dynamic, vibrant depiction of the dark side of India's rapid economic success. Friends recommended that I listen to that first, which I did, but I listened to it again after completing the book. The shrill women voices are really spot on! An Indian man I met had also recommended it. 1-Sentence-Summary:Behind The Beautiful Foreverswill make you more grateful for what you have, look for ways to tear down corruption in the world, and help the poor by sharing the experiences of people living in the Annawadi slum in India. The Emilia Romagna Region and Its 3 Famous P's - Prosciutto, Parmigiano and Pavarotti! I found myself brokenhearted by the recurrent police and governmental corruption they must wade through in order to just exist. What does she suggest be done to improve the situation? Trying to write a book about the slums of New Delhi is a daunting task, to say the least (and please bear in mind, I say that as a white lady whose only knowledge of India comes from a few Bollywood movies and, I had read that this book was well-written and would probably win some awards, which is why I picked it up. According to Lonely Planet, there was a company that did it right, a "sensitive" tour. It won the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize among many others. Katherine (Kate) J. Boo is a staff writer at The New Yorker and a former reporter and editor for The Washington Post. The author is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has covered social inequalities in the past. Tssk tssk. Very good question. To see what your friends thought of this book, This book is not easy to read, let me be clear. If you liked Slumdog Millionaire you will probably like this book. As I wondered about the way in which Boo had rendered Asha's words ("when I describe the thoughts of individuals ... those thoughts have been related to me and my translators"), I was reminded of Muriel Spark's account of Miss Brodie's excursion with the "Brodie set" into the old town in Edinburgh, where the schoolchildren encounter, in effect, a foreign country, and can't make sense of what they overhear, although it's being said in English. Only her intelligence – a novelist's intelligence, with a shrewd eye for vanity, and an understanding that everything is informed by compromise – keeps her tale from losing its grounding in reality. I read through practically in one gulp, hardly coming up for air. Bethany Schumacher, 128 TCCS. In a Flaubertian irony, Manju studies Congreve's The Way of the World, a sleazy tale about "first-class people", without fully comprehending the text. Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a magnificent achievement, one that could not happen in the Commercial Theatre sector. All those poor little rich kids. The shrill women voices are really spot on! That’s the first thing I did after finishing reading it, and for quite a long time. by Katherine Boo (Random House, 2012) Opened Nov. 18, 2014. A day to bask in the amazing power of books to inform, amuse, educate, and alter our views and viewpoints. According to Lonely Planet, there was a company that did it right, a "sensitive" tour. November 10, 2020. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. That's partly because Boo writes so damn well. Yes, I am glad I listened to it. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity. Boo has worked hard to amass her facts and get them right. I get it - life in a Mumbai sluim is brutish but the writing style tries too hard to shock and quickly left. In America and Europe, it was said, people know what is going to happen when they turn on the water tap or flick the light switch. In the prologue we meet Abdul Hussain, a teenager who scratches a living for his family by sorting scrap scavenged by his neighbours and selling it for recycling. February 10, 2012. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity at Amazon.com. Can anyone compare it with The City of Joy? Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Rambling: A scene from Behind the Beautiful Forevers . This American view of a Mumbai slum is impressive, Slum life … 'Boo's intelligence keeps her tale from losing its grounding in reality.' The contrast between the economic “haves” and “have nots” is so blatant here. Reading this part twice is what I advise. While it is not the author's intent to offer solutions, I did not find her offering compelling explanations for what transpires in Annawadi. The slum they don't want anyone to see. Am I the only victim of such suffering? This work, winner of the 2012’s National Book Award and written by Pulitzer winner Katherine Boo, is the result of three years she spent in Annawadi, a slum in Mumbai, India. “Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.”, “What you don't want is always going to be with you, http://www.behindthebeautifulforevers.com/, Pulitzer Prize Nominee for General Nonfiction (2013), National Book Award for Nonfiction (2012), PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction (2013), Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism (2013), Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest (2012), Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2013), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (2012), NAIBA Book of the Year for Nonfiction (2012), Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Nominee (2012), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2013), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2012). I had three days to spend in Mumbai this February, and, reading my Lonely Planet guidebook, I considered undertaking a "slum tour." --Yet--I waited long enough! It’s been a distressful morning. The shadow of a mighty passenger jet flies low over the Olivier stalls, the nearness of its deafening roar making the scalp tighten. So much of the book echoed with what I know about the slums of Port au Prince, for example. But it's also because over the course of three years in India she got extraordinary access to the lives and minds of the Annawadi slum, a settlement nestled jarringly close to a shiny international airport and a row of luxury hotels. Boo won me over when she presented the impoverished people of Annawadi as individuals with worries, ambitions and desires as everyday as yours or mine rather than victims. Reading this part twice is what I advise. It's a fascinating look at how the underclass tries to survive and get ahead in a 21st-century economy. Behind a wall emblazoned with an ad for tiles that will be “beautiful forever”, about 3,000 people live in 335 huts out of site from users of the modern airport and its luxury hotels. So instead of me telling you what the book is about (there's a synopsis) or acting like an expert on poverty (which I am n, I've not read a ton of narrative nonfiction, but Katherine Boo's account of the Annawadi slum in Mumbai and the people who inhabit it makes for a thrilling and moving audiobook. Her Favorite Books About Inequality: The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist reports on poverty in Behind the Beautiful Forevers and offers her top... 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. Good Minds Suggest—Katherine Boo's Favorite Books About Inequality. The third family is Asha's. I KEPT ON ASKING HOW THIS COULD NOT BE FICTION. How is it that a book about the poorest, most exploited, ignored, trodden upon people didn't evoke more feeling or sustain more engagement? 'We try so many things', as one Annawadi girl put it, 'but the world doesn't move in our favor.' I was excited about reading this book after reading the reviews; however, it did not live up to the kudos. Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity is a non-fiction book written by the Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo in 2012. Sadly, the rich vs poor scenario has existed for thousands of years and can be found everywhere in the world. Review: Behind The Beautiful Forevers. Futile visits to the local political corporator and pleading to a rigid money-lender for a loan is what his weekly schedule looks like. Yet , I read about the growing middle and professional classes. Photograph: Rafiq Maqbool/AP, a large slum close to Sahar International Airport in Mumbai, Muriel Spark's account of Miss Brodie's excursion with the "Brodie set" into the old town in Edinburgh. ", See all 11 questions about Behind the Beautiful Forevers…, New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012 (fiction and nonfiction), Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License, Amazing Grace: The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation. Faces that I’ll see as I go to bed this morning, for time just passed as I immersed myself in this book. It's certainly refreshing to see so … February 7th 2012 Mirchi was impatiently awaiting his best friend, Rahul, a Hindu boy who lived a few huts away, and who had become an Annawadi celebrity. I was excited about reading this book after reading the reviews; however, it did not live up to the kudos. Behind The Beautiful Forevers: An Introduction Katherine Boo’s first book, Behind The Beautiful Forevers, details the lives of the citizens of Annawadi, a small slum in Mumbai, India. After the crisis, the lives of her subjects begin to unravel and the writing becomes more essayistic. The book often reads like a novel, although it may not be the kind of novel you'd want to read. Behind the Beautiful Forever’s. A former professor of mine once related to me a story of the time he escorted Brazilian educator and activist Paulo Freire, author of, Stare. Se. In this brilliantly written, fast-paced book, based on three years of uncompromising reporting, a bewildering age of … I was raised in great poverty, and have a first-hand understanding of its effects. While a novel might be a clear starting point for such a transformation, David Hare’s new play Behind the Beautiful Forevers instead bases its script on Katherine Boo’s vast work of non-fiction that documents a panorama of poverty and corruption in the slums neighbouring Mumbai airport. The author herself narrates the afterword which explains the author's methodology. National Theatre. The author is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has covered social inequalities in the past. Dear Lord! Futile visits to the local political corporator and pleading to a rigid money-lender for a loan is what his weekly schedule looks like. Surely the rising global economy of India will eventually float all boats, so why dwell on a few failed lives? The milkman won’t be delivering the daily liter of milk; his house was razed by the local municipality. This book is quite an achievement. The crisp writing aims to punch you in the guts as the unrelenting sequence of misery and death unfolds page after page. I didn’t know what I was looking at, or more aptly, looking for – of course, there was this wall ahead, 3 feet ahead – but I wasn’t looking at it; I was looking for ‘faces’; faces that I’ve imagined floating between my eyes and the pages of the book while I was reading it; faces that don’t resemble anyone I know, but faces that might resemble closely with the people living right now, even as I write this and you read this, in Mumbai. I am an Indian National and a lot of this is already heard of, and still the insight is profoundly beautiful along with a courageous display of hopes. Refresh and try again. Somehow, seeing pictures of it doesn't lessen the shock of seeing it in real life, the row on row of monochromatic dun-coloured ragged shacks ringing Mumbai's glitziest highrise hotels. For Katherine Boo, working on this intimate account of life in Annawadi was slow, uncertain and painful in a variety of ways. Extreme poverty usually strips "civilized" behavior from individuals and groups. And I couldn't go through with it because it was a question I couldn't answer. Flannery O' Connor's constricted universes, full of grotesques and buoyant improvisers, come to mind; Boo has the same concentrated vision, but more empathy. For most of us, an image or a vignette would be enough to. Though this book is set in a Mumbai slum, it could be about nearly any place in the Third World. The breaking of the old floor by Abdul and his brother frays Fatima's nerves: '"You're all hammering too loud! This is an amazing story about families who live and work in a Mumbai slum. I spent the entire reading reminding myself that these were real people so that I would endeavor to feel something toward their story. Reviews. Order Essay. It is precisely what the National Theatre is for. It's National Book Lovers Day! (I bought this book the first week it was released --hoping and waiting for my book club to 'choose' it). Yes, we have gross inequalities in our own society, but I doubt anything can touch what you will read in these pages. It has also been adapted into a play by David Hare in 2014, shown on National Theatre Live in 2015. of examples of governments that dissolve under the weight of their own corruption - severe inequality being a big part of that. I want a further discussion of her ideas. Extreme poverty usually strips "civilized" behavior from individuals and groups. Since she doesn't know any Indian languages, she had translators throughout, one of whom must have helped her understand the sort of rejoinder that Asha made to Robert, ex-slumlord and one of her tormentors. So let me first say that Katherine Boo is an excellent writer and a dedicated observer. What is also striking is seeing how the people Boo writes about have hope in circumstances, that from the outside, seem so wholly hopeless, so impossible to overcome. An Introduction. Another voyeuristic tour of Slumbai, another rap … I was raised in great poverty, and have a first-hand understanding of its effects. I get it - life in a Mumbai sluim is brutish but the writing style tries too hard to shock and quickly left me jaded. The contrast between the economic “haves” and “have nots” is so blatant here. For middle-class people like me who grew up in Bombay, forays into slums were infrequent. Behind The Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death And Hope In A Mumbai UndercityKatherine BooHamish Hamilton 254 pagesRs499 At first, the stories, characters and situations will seem familiar, almost stereotypical. Buy the book echoed with what I know about the slums of Annawadi, for. 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