Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

Trade paperback. A landmark debut from a Pulitzer Prize-winning "New Yorker" journalist, telling the stories of the residents of a Mumbai slum. Powerful reportage, it is seen as the sort of book Dickens would write about India, were he alive today. 'A triumph of a book. A beautiful account, told through real-life stories, of the sorrows and joys, anxieties and stamina, in the lives of the precarious and powerless in urban India whom a booming country has failed to absorb and integrate' Amartya Sen