Katherine Boo spent more than three years observing life in a wretched slum in Mumbai, one of India’s largest cities. She tells the story in this absorbing new book, filled with shocking details about wasted lives, gruesome deaths and widespread corruption. Known as Annawadi, the slum was founded in 1991 by workers trucked in to repair a runway at the city’s international … [Read more...]
‘Invisible’ a masterful chronicle of ambition, mystery and loss
It would be too much to say that Paul Auster’s latest novel constitutes a comeback or even a return to form. His recent work, although sometimes roughed up by critics, has not exactly been inferior, or the product of an imagination grown slack with maturity and success. Yet for all that Auster accomplishes with, say, Man in the Dark (2008), it is a small book. Its effects, … [Read more...]