📱 eBook en inglés BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS

Its not just that rich people dont know what theyve got. They dont even know what they throw away.

India is beginning to prosper. But beyond the luxury hotels surrounding Mumbai airport is an obstacle, a

makeshift slum. Its home to foul mouthed Zehrunisa and her garbage sorting son Abdul, entrepreneurs both. Sunil, twelve, picks plastic. Manju, schoolteacher, hopes to be the settlements first woman to gain a degree. Asha, go-to woman, exploits every scam to become a first-class person. And Fatima, One Leg, is about to make an accusation that will destroy herself and shatter the neighbourhood.

Katherine Boo spent three years under the flight-path, recording the lives of Annawadis diverse inhabitants. Now from Boos book, which won the National Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2012, David Hare has fashioned an epic play for the stage which details the ingenious and sometimes violent ways in which the poor and disadvantaged negotiate with corruption to seek a handhold on capitalisms lowest rungs.

David Hares stage adaptation of Behind the Beautiful Forevers premiered at the National Theatre, London, in November 2014.