Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombays Dance Bars - Hardcover

Sonia Faleiro

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670084050 ISBN 13: 9780670084050

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2010

Synopsis

Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in search of a story when she met Leela, a beautiful and charismatic bar dancer with a story to tell. Leela introduced Sonia to the underworld of Bombay's dance bars: a world of glamorous women, of fierce love, sex and violence, of customers and gangsters, of police, prostitutes and pimps. When an ambitious politician cashed in on a tide of false morality and had Bombay's dance bars wiped out, Leela's proud independence faced its greatest test. In a city where almost everyone is certain that someone, somewhere, is worse off than them, she fights to survive, and to win. Beautiful Thing, one of the most original works of non-fiction from India in years, is a vivid and intimate portrait of one reporter's journey into the dark, pulsating and ultimately damaged soul of Bombay.

About this title

Book Description:

The Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year 2011

About the Author:

Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning reporter and the author of a book of fiction, The Girl (Viking, 2006). Beautiful Thing is her first full-length work of non-fiction and is based on five years of research in Bombay's dance bars. Sonia was born in Goa, India; studied in Edinburgh, worked in Bombay, and lives in San Francisco. Please visit www.soniafaleiro.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0670084050
• ISBN 13: 9780670084050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232