
Author: Sonia Faleiro
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..
The Girl
Sonia Faleiro
Beautiful Thing
Sonia Faleiro
Published by
Penguin Books India
Published
15 Dec 2011
Imprint
ISBN13
9780143418511
Book Format
B
Extent
232pp
Rights
Indian Subcontinent only
Category
Non-Fiction
Binding
Paperback
Price (Rs.)
299.00



‘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 "