"Sonia Faleiro is the author of The Good Girls: An Ordinary Killing (2021), now available from Grove Atlantic, Bloomsbury UK, Penguin Random House India and Penguin Random House Canada. 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 Sonia was born in Goa, studied in Edinburgh, worked in Bombay and now lives in San Francisco. It has been published worldwide and translated into numerous languages. Beautiful Thing is her first full-length work of non-fiction, and is based on five years of reportage in Bombay's dance bars. About the Author: Sonia Faleiro Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning reporter and author of the novel, The Girl. In this extraordinary work of reportage, she draws an unforgettable portrait of the bar dancer and her subterranean night-time world. Journalist Sonia Faleiro followed Leela before and after the ban, meeting her friends, her lovers, and her family. When the dance bars in the city are banned, the young woman and her friends find their worlds slowly giving way. And she is also self destructive, cynical and full of despair. She is young, beautiful, determined and hedonistic. 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.
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