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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum by Katherine Boo – review

Reported by guardian.co.uk on Friday, 22 June 2012 (on June 22, 2012)
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The squalid margins of Mumbai are brilliantly pinned to the page

The muses are not static or isolated beings; they cluster in particular places at particular times. What Florence was to Italian..


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