![]() ![]() Sonia Faleiro has crafted one of the most original works of nonfiction about India in years. In a city where almost everyone is certain that someone, somewhere, is worse off than them, she fights to survive-and to win. 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. Leela introduced Sonia to the underworld of Bombay's dance bars: a world of glamorous women of fierce love, sex, and violence of gangsters, police, prostitutes, and pimps. Sonia Faleiro was a reporter in search of a story when she met nineteen-year-old Leela, a charismatic exotic dancer with a story to tell. ![]() Already published in India to great acclaim and named a Time Out Subcontinental Book of the Year and an Observer Book of the Year, Beautiful Thing is a stunning piece of reportage that offers a rare firsthand glimpse into Bombay's notorious sex industry. ![]()
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