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Lädt ... Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, And Hope In A Mumbai Undercity (2014. Auflage)von Katherine Boo
Werk-InformationenAnnawadi oder der Traum von einem anderen Leben von Katherine Boo
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Boo deserves an academy award for writing this non fiction book as if it were a novel. ( ) If it had been a novel I wouldn't have finished it. But I felt I had to because those people in that awful slum had to live it so at least I should witness it. Some of them keep a kind of hope for a different future. It's one of the saddest books I've read and it will stay with me. Brilliantly written. I became very angry and sad while reading this book that chronicles the real lives of several individuals living in a slum of Mumbai. The author spent three years investigating and interviewing, and there were so many awful events to record. It was so very sad to read about the hopelessness of many of these people, and to hear them debating about which god might help them most. It makes me want to support organizations like Gospel for Asia even more, since they will help with material and spiritual needs. One of the biggest downfalls of this book is that there is no discussion of how people in the West might be able to help. Questions are raised, but not answered; while it may help to create a conversation between some people, it will be set aside and forgotten by many others, who rely on immediate action to cement experiences in their minds and sustain their compassion. Note: There is some profanity, and frank mentions of sex (though nothing detailed). The author writes for the New Yorker and has made a career of reporting from among poor people around the world. The story here is of several characters in a particular slum near the airport in Mumbai. The author lived with these people as explained in a prologue. The work obviously hasn't done as much for me as for others; it won the national book award for non-fiction this year. Some reviews claim that this book is non-fiction with human or heart-felt stories that rival fiction. Unfortunately, I mostly noticed a superficiality or brevity that one would only expect in weak fiction. A fictional account similar to this story would, after all, have much more character development. This is easier to do in fiction, since fiction is untrue. Fiction also has to tie its stories together, have a theme or themes, use imagery, etc. But this book is journalism. My problem is probably just that reviews of this book lead me to expect something else. One review compared the book to Dickens. That is laughable.
Next I devoured Boo’s book, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity,” which extended her probing and compassionate portrayal of poverty to India. Before becoming a journalist, I had spent nearly two years working with grass-roots groups in Mumbai slums just like Annawadi, the one she spent three years chronicling for the book. I’d been so upset by journalistic portrayals of these neighborhoods that I wrote an entire master’s thesis about the subject. Now, finally, here was an account that took slum residents seriously as protagonists in their own lives, without dismissing the inequality and corruption that stymied them. Boo, in letting go of her story, in dwelling with it relatively briefly in her book's 250 pages (in contrast to the years she spent with the slum-dwellers), allows it to resonate with us as a small classic of contemporary writing. AuszeichnungenPrestigeträchtige AuswahlenBemerkenswerte Listen
Annawadi ist ein Slum in der wirtschaftlich boomenden Millionenmetropole Mumbai. Über 3 Jahre lang hat die mit einem Inder verheiratete und vielfach ausgezeichnete US-amerikanische Journalistin hier verbracht, die Bewohner beobachtet und Gespräche mit ihnen geführt. In einer Mischung aus Reportage und Roman erzählt sie von Abdul, dem Müllsortierer, und dessen verkrüppelter Nachbarin Fatima "Einbein", von Manja, die das College schaffen will, und von den vielen anderen Müllsammlern, Gelegenheitsjobbern und Dieben, die dort leben; sie schildert ihre individuellen Probleme, berichtet von Neid, Missgunst und Gewalt und beschreibt die bescheidenen Träume der Annawadier und ihre Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben. Ein vielschichtiger, einfühlsamer und ungemein eindringlicher Blick auf die Missstände hinter den Glitzerfassaden des indischen Wirtschaftsbooms; in den USA ein gefeierter Bestseller. (2) Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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