Katherine Boo (Staff Writer, New Yorker, Y)

Broschiertes Buch

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum

Beschreibung

A landmark debut from a Pulitzer-winning New Yorker journalist: if Dickens were alive today, this is the book he might have written about India

Autor

Katherine Boo is an investigative journalist focusing on matters of poverty and opportunity. A contributor to the New Yorker magazine since 2001, she was previously a reporter and editor at the Washington Post. Among the honours her work has received are a MacArthur Foundation 'Genius' Grant, a National Magazine Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This, her first book, won the 2012 National Book Award for Non-Fiction and the PEN/Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Guardian First Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Books
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9781846274510
• ISBN-10: 1846274516
• Artikelnr.: 36617264