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The Dancing Girls of Lahore : Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District by Louise Brown (2006, Trade Paperback)

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THE DANCING GIRLS OF LAHORE: SELLING LOVE AND SAVING DREAMS IN PAKISTAN’S PLEASURE DISTRICT By Louise Brown **BRAND NEW**.

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An unforgettable and compassionate look at the lives of the residents of Lahore's pleasure district The Dancing Girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond District in the shadow of a great mosque. The 21st century goes on outside the walls, this ancient quarter, but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: beloved by sultans, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are, unclean, and Maha's daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it. Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of one Lahori courtesan. Beautifully understated, it turns a novelist's eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, at fourteen a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to the Sultan of Dubai; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the Sultan come calling once more.

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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060740434
ISBN-13
9780060740436
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50347725

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Book Title
Dancing Girls of Lahore : Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan's Pleasure District
Author
Louise Brown
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women, Asia / India & South Asia, Women's Studies, Customs & Traditions, Prostitution & Sex Trade
Publication Year
2006
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
336 Pages

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8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
9.9 Oz

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"Chilling and heart-warming . . . Brown has a novelist's appreciation of her surroundings and the human drama that plays out before her." -- New York Times "Brown's sketches depict a startling diversity of existence within the closed world of Heera Mandi . . . a compelling, prurient look behind the monolithic curtain of orthodoxy." -- San Francisco Chronicle "A wide-ranging look at class, gender relations and family life in a place where the ancient constantly bumps up against the modern . . . Fascinating." -- Los Angeles Times "A fascinating ethnography with Bollywood flair, even at its darkest moments." -- Washington Post "Riveting and important. Even readers who don't think they're interested in Pakistani prostitution will find themselves engrossed." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review), Riveting and important. Even readers who don't think they're interested in Pakistani prostitution will find themselves engrossed.
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by quicke-martJun 11, 2008
Fantastic book! really gives insight into other culture
This is a fantastic book! I absolutely love it - it has become one of my top ten all time favorites. This book reads like a memoir and Louis Brown does and excellent job painting a picture of life in Lahore and really brings home the differences in culture. I like that she adds her feelings to the story and this is not just a fact book dolling out scientific non-compationate facts. I highly recommend this book to anyone that is interested in appreciating our culture and the ease of life we have in the US

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