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Offers first-hand insight into Bombay's sex industry and traces the author's experiences with a charismatic teenage exotic dancer whose independence was challenged by an ambitious politician's campaign of false morality.
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Women dancers, Bar, Journalists, Lebensbedingungen, Bars (Drinking establishments), Tanzerin, Social conditions, Sexindustrie, Sex-oriented businesses, Biography, Women, Sex-oriented business, India, biography, Dormitories, Dance halls, Prostitution, Sex in dance, New York Times reviewed, Dancers, biography, Women, social conditions, Women, india, Journalists, biography, Bars (drinking establishments)Showing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Beautiful thing: inside the secret world of Bombay's dance bars
2012, Black Cat, Distributed by Publishers Group West, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
2012, Canongate Books
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Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
2012, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
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Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars
2011, Canongate Books
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Beautiful thing: inside the secret world of Bombay's dance bars
2011, Canongate
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Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombays Dance Bars
Oct 01, 2010, Penguin Books
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Reprint. Orginally published: New Delhi : Hamish Hamilton, 2010. 9780670084050
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"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."--Publisher's description.
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