Hailed as one of the most extraordinary books of 2010, it is a masterpiece! About the Book: Beautiful Thing Leela is a bar dancer in Mumbai. She is young, beautiful, determined and hedonistic. And she is also self destructive, cynical and full of despair. When the dance bars in the city are banned, the young woman and her friends find their worlds slowly giving way. Journalist Sonia Faleiro followed Leela before and after the ban, meeting her friends, her lovers, and her family. In this extraordinary work of reportage, she draws an unforgettable portrait of the bar dancer and her subterranean night-time world. About the Author: Sonia Faleiro Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning reporter and author of the novel, The Girl. Beautiful Thing is her first full-length work of non-fiction, and is based on five years of reportage in Bombay's dance bars. It has been published worldwide and translated into numerous languages. Sonia was born in Goa, studied in Edinburgh, worked in Bombay and now lives in San Francisco. Reviews A tour de force of reportage, whose depth, insight and resonance make it the equal of the best fiction'-The Sunday Times Unforgettable'-Gregory David Roberts 'A magnificent book of reportage that is also endowed with all the terror and beauty of art'-Kiran Desai 'A brilliant, unforgettable book by a writer who is one of the best of her generation'-Business Standard 'Riveting story-telling'-The Times of India
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