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。
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: [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 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...
评分对我来说,Kathrine Boo的Behind the Beautiful Forevers不是一本容易读的书,看完之后记下了五百多个不认识的单词,这大概是自从我十多年前考完六级之后最大规模的一次词汇扩充了。不愧是普利策奖得主,文笔果然了得,这几百个生词多半是一些形容词和副词,光是描绘恶臭肮脏的...
评分Katherine Boo是普利策奖得主。我买这本书一是因为它纽约时报2012年推荐的年度最佳之一,二是因为题材。我对写得好的非虚构一直有兴趣,而且自从2007年的短暂印度行以来,我对印度一直保持一种有距离的好奇心。不过读这本书的过程很拖拉,总算把它结束了! Boo的文笔很漂亮,...
印度的贫穷真是让人震撼啊,作者文笔之美和印度的差真是形成天壤之别
评分“...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.” -- 寫得真好
评分“...much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.” -- 寫得真好
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
评分适合很有爱的女性读者
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