ABOUT
Sonia Faleiro is an award-winning reporter and writer. She is the author of a book of fiction, The Girl (Viking, 2006) and a contributor to numerous anthologies including AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India (Random House, 2008).
Beautiful Thing is her first work of non-fiction and is based on five years of research
in the secretive world of Bombay's dance bars. The New York Times hailed Beautiful
Thing as ‘an intimate and valuable piece of reportage’ ... ‘that will break your heart
several times over.’ The Sunday Times UK 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 available in the Indian Subcontinent, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US. It is forthcoming in translation in several Indian and European languages.
It is an Observer, Guardian, and Economist Book of the Year, Time Out Subcontinental Book of the Year, and The Sunday Times Travel Book of the Year, 2011.
Sonia was born in Goa, studied in Edinburgh, worked in Bombay, and now lives in San Francisco.