Dungeon
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Won 9 awards including the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Award, and the MacArthur Genius Grant! The Pulitzer Prize winner's in-depth investigation of the people at the bottom of Mumbai's underground city took three years to complete this shocking work! A book about the redemption of humanity that made Bill Gates shed tears and was recommended by the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics! Here, people are strictly classified like garbage, justice is traded with each other like garbage, and life is more penniless than garbage. Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo spent three years tracking the lower class people in Mumbai. Through audio, video, and interviews, she recorded the living conditions of these residents from 2007 to 2011. There, the vast majority of people make a living by picking up garbage and live in houses made of iron sheets, polycarbonate boards and tarps, and some people simply sleep in the open air. People there are plagued by poverty and corruption, violence and death are eternal themes, and hope and despair emerge alternately. Is it enough for people to just be alive? This blockbuster work, almost completed with tears, points directly to areas that traditional documentary literature is unwilling to touch, and outlines the gripping struggle process of disadvantaged groups, with unique depth.
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