Behind the Beautiful Forevers 在線電子書 圖書標籤: 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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"The gates of the rich, occasionally rattled, remained unbreached. The politicians held forth on the middle class. The poor took down one another, and the world's great, unequal cities soldiered on in relative peace."
評分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...
評分沒有太大感覺,不知道是不是同類型的看多瞭。
評分邂逅:2013.7.flipkart; 旅程:2013.8.3.-2013.8.9.; 地點:傢中、坡縣; remind me so much of life in bombay. a much better attempt than Bansal. Faithfully brutal and sharp.
評分“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” !”
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。
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.
这也许就是我们能做的事情了。 在如实记录了阿布杜一家以及周围人的遭遇后,作者把大头议论放在了最后两章和后记中,提出了对印度贫民窟如此成因的思考和提问。 由于我对社会制度思考比较无力无能。我更倾向于置身阿布杜角色上思考他如何能拜托困境?然而从最初的尚有希望(攒钱...
評分最早知道Katherine Boo是七八年前读她在《纽约客》上写的The Marriage Cure,那已经是她得普利策奖之后了,顿时对其文笔欣赏之至,从此便想凡她所写之文必读,所以之后又读其The best job in town, The churning等关于印度的文章。但近年来没再关注她,也没听说她的近作,直到...
評分作者: [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...
評分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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