Behind the Beautiful Forevers with Katherine Boo

MELBOURNE › ARTS & CULTURE › LITERARY

JUL 2012

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Where The Wheeler Centre 176 Little Lonsdale Street

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When ENDEDTue 31 Jul,11:59PM

Cost free

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India observers and lovers of great writing agree: Katherine Boo’s word-portrait of a Mumbai slum is the best book about India in decades. The New York Times says it reads ‘almost like a novel: a true-life version of Slumdog Millionaire without the Bollywood Ending’. Compared to Dickens and Dante, Capote and Orwell, Behind the Beautiful Forevers is a masterpiece of immer...
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