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Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning reporter and writer. She is the author of The Girl (Viking, 2006) and Beautiful Thing (Hamish Hamilton, 2010). Critics hailed Beautiful Thing as 'a brilliant, unforgettable book by a writer who is one of the best of her generation'. The Sunday Times called it ‘a tour de force of reportage, whose depth, insight and resonance make it the equal of the best fiction’ while The Observer praised it as a ‘brilliant investigative foray into the dance bars of Bombay.’

Beautiful Thing is being translated into several languages. It is currently available in the Indian Subcontinent, Australia and New Zealand, the UK and the Netherlands. It is forthcoming in the US in March 2012 (Grove).

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'When Sheila Devi was growing up in the village of Jharki Bisalpur, wild animals would frequently wander through, searching for water and food. She saw deer and wild boar, foxes, even a python. There were rumored tiger sightings. But in the last few years “even the animals have had the sense to move elsewhere” Mrs. Devi, now a Panchayat leader in her late thirties, says dryly.'

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Average rating: 3.75 · 129 ratings · 39 reviews · 3 distinct works
Beautiful Thing: Inside the...
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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2.69 of 5 stars 2.69 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006 — 2 editions
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Ślicznotka. Nocne życie Indii
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012
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