Behind the Beautiful Forevers

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作者簡介

凱瑟琳·布(Katherine Boo)

《紐約客雜誌》的專職作傢。曾任《華盛頓郵報》的記者和編輯,過去二十年都在報導貧睏地區、思索社會資源不對等,個人如何擺脫貧睏等議題。曆年來,她對於底層社會真實生活的報導,為她贏得瞭麥剋阿瑟天纔奬、普利策奬、美國國傢雜誌奬之專題寫作奬等殊榮。

譯者簡介

何佩樺

美國紐約哥倫比亞大學教育學院碩士,曾任大學教師,現旅居北美,專事翻譯。譯有《伊斯坦布爾:一座城市的記憶》《另類的齣口》《西班牙星光之路》《遊牧女之歌》《慢船到中國》《夜航西飛》等書。

出版者:Random House
作者:Katherine Boo
出品人:
頁數:256
译者:
出版時間:2012-2-7
價格:USD 27.00
裝幀:Hardcover
isbn號碼:9781400067558
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  • 印度 
  • 社會 
  • 英文原版 
  • 非虛構 
  • 社會學 
  • Katherine 
  • 外國文學 
  • 美國 
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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.

具體描述

讀後感

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67 去过印度,第一次看见住在班加罗尔大街上的城市平民,还是非常震惊的,但是比起本书中描写的人们,似乎我见到的那些人还是强多了。在狭小的空间,人们为了仅有的资源殊死争夺,不惜自残和自杀,为了邻居砌墙掉到自己碗里的石块而自焚以陷害邻居一家?为了没有给弟弟做好蛋卷...  

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书籍的中文名是地下城,而英文名为Behind the Beautiful Forevers。 这个说法的来源除了是实体的广告牌上的标语,另一个可能是对西方人民来说,东方总是神秘而美丽的:神秘的宗教,奇特的食物,精美的艺术品,长相不同的人民。不少西方的创作者都以西方的价值观(一个自诩更为...  

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作者反反复复询问这样一个问题,为何穷人不反抗,为何不公平的社会不会坍塌? why the poor don't rise up, and why unequal societies don't simply implode 作者的答案:贫民窟的居民具有deep, idiosyncratic intelligence这样的优秀品质,但是他们太穷了,每日为生活所迫,...  

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67 去过印度,第一次看见住在班加罗尔大街上的城市平民,还是非常震惊的,但是比起本书中描写的人们,似乎我见到的那些人还是强多了。在狭小的空间,人们为了仅有的资源殊死争夺,不惜自残和自杀,为了邻居砌墙掉到自己碗里的石块而自焚以陷害邻居一家?为了没有给弟弟做好蛋卷...  

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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...

用戶評價

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人間地獄,文筆優美。作者特彆會把握敘事的不確定性和使用強烈的、近乎冷酷的對比,用一個廣告牌就能點齣貧窮背後的嚴酷感~比較遺憾的是沒有深入挖掘生存麵前的道德邏輯,這其實是我非常想瞭解的部分。貧民窟的高利貸者有時是維持窮人生活的必備手段,instability fosters ingenuity,再次推薦《Portfolio of the Poor》。

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沒有太大感覺,不知道是不是同類型的看多瞭。

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“我橫竪睡不著,仔細看瞭半夜,纔從字縫裏看齣字來,滿本都寫著兩個字是“吃人” !”

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3.5。中間讀瞭幾次放下再拿起,感覺作者需要提高邏輯連貫性,我需要增強文筆和錶達能力

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was telling a random Indian lady from LA on our bus tour about the book. She commented: Americans like to dig up other people's garbage and write about it. They need to take care of themselves first. There are some hundreds of homeless people in LA. They need to write about that... Me: Word...

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