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Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum. Taschenbuch

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Boo, Katherine

TaschenbuchPaperback

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A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might have written about India

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-84627-451-0

ProduktartTaschenbuch

EinbandPaperback

FormatB-Format Paperback (UK)

VerlagGranta Books

Erscheinungsdatum07.02.2013

Seiten256 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 128 mm, Höhe 198 mm, Dicke 20 mm

Gewicht200 g

WarengruppeEnglish Books

KategorieHistory & Politics

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Boo, Katherine

Katherine Boo is an investigative journalist focusing on matters of poverty and opportunity. A contributor to the New Yorker magazine since 2001, she was previously a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. Among the honours her work has received are a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, a National Magazine Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This, her first book, won the 2012 National Book Award for Non-Fiction and the PEN/Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.