| Edition |
1st edition. |
| Descript |
xxii, 256 pages ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Accelerated Reader AR UG 7.8 14 156642. |
| Local Note |
Book Club choice. |
| Note |
"Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity"--Dust jacket. |
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Nonfiction. |
| Contents |
Prologue : between roses -- Undercitizens -- The business of burning -- A little wildness -- Up and out. |
| Summary |
Annawadi is a settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are filled with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. But then Abdul 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. |
| Audience |
1030L Lexile |
| Subject |
Urban poor -- India -- Mumbai.
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Mumbai (India) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780812979329 |
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9781400067558 |
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1400067553 |
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