Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars - Couverture souple

Faleiro, Sonia

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857861697 ISBN 13 : 9780857861696

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2011

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0857861697
• ISBN 13: 9780857861696
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible