Thursday 16th   June 2016                11:00 am to 12:15 pm

Residence of:          Penny Barton

Guests Welcome

“BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS”

Life, death and hope in a Mumbai undercity

Winner of the National Book Award USA, “Behind the Beautiful Forevers” is more rewarding and easier to read than most novels. It is a passport into another world, a world of chaotic unpredictability, a world of striving, and a world where joy and hope still exist but it is also an unadulterated, rigorously researched account of four years in the life of a Mumbai slum.

Pulitzer prize winner Katherine Boo, like Dickens and perhaps Orwell, tells a tale so fascinating, so detailed and so absorbing that our perception of the world changes. Mumbai will never be quite the same again.

Katie Dubey                                                              Penny Barton

Ritu Mehta                                                                 Francesca Pasquantonio