language, like dots of colored light pinging from a smudgy mirrored ball, casts an intoxicating if unsettling glow. " intimate and valuable book of literary reportage. Unforgettable for its artistry and intimacy, Beautiful Thing is a vivid portrait of one reporter's journey into the dark, damaged soul of Bombay.Ī Guardian, Observer, and Economist Best Book of the YearĪ Time Out India Subcontinental Book of the Year 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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