### Amazon.com Review **Amazon Best Books of the Month, February 2012**: Katherine Boo spent three years among the residents of the Annawadi slum, a sprawling, cockeyed settlement of more than 300 tin-roof huts and shacks in the shadow of Mumbai's International Airport. From within this "sumpy plug
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity: Life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity
โ Scribed by Katherine Boo
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 211 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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