Behind the Beautiful Forevers 在线电子书 图书标签: 印度 社会 英文原版 非虚构 社会学 Katherine 外国文学 美国
发表于2024-05-20
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用造作的叙述表达自己的观点,感觉还是怪怪的。有时候觉得overinterpretation in my face... 但作者很辛苦……
评分合上书后是深深地压抑 来自贫民窟底层人民的生活 整个检查法院警察的腐败更是雪上加霜 “justice and opportunity for its least powerful citizens” 很震撼心灵
评分用造作的叙述表达自己的观点,感觉还是怪怪的。有时候觉得overinterpretation in my face... 但作者很辛苦……
评分直到最后一页,才发现这不是虚构,不是小说,晴天霹雳。
评分人间地狱,文笔优美。作者特别会把握叙事的不确定性和使用强烈的、近乎冷酷的对比,用一个广告牌就能点出贫穷背后的严酷感~比较遗憾的是没有深入挖掘生存面前的道德逻辑,这其实是我非常想了解的部分。贫民窟的高利贷者有时是维持穷人生活的必备手段,instability fosters ingenuity,再次推荐《Portfolio of the Poor》。
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.
提起贫民窟,很多人首先一定会想到印度,大概是因为电影《贫民窟的百万富翁》的知名度,又或者是时常见诸于媒体的那些触目的照片。 印度,确实是拥有贫民窟最多的国家,仅孟买一地,就有大大小小两千多处贫民窟,这个神秘而混沌的古老国度,因为众多的人口,巨大的贫富差距、残...
评分One review on Amazon.com said "It's hard book to read, but I highly recommend it." At first sight I thought maybe the reviewer meant the difficult vocabulary, the vocabulary truly is difficult, for the author choose to depict slum life in India, which makes...
评分 评分印度金融中心孟买,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”的屋内或屋顶,这里是印度众多贫民窟之一安纳瓦迪——被豪华酒店的大理石建筑包围,由居民临时修建的房屋歪歪斜斜,邻居之间仅隔一面危墙或破布,泥土里的污水散发出刺鼻的...
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...
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