More Beautiful Thing ...

For those of you who haven't joined the book's FB page, I thought I'd share some of the latest reviews of my new book. The earlier ones, published around the launch in late October last year, and primarily from the mainstream media, are collected in this incredibly long post:

In Biblio: A Review of Books, Kalpana Sharma, author of the marvellous Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia's Largest Slum, calls the book 'remarkable' and describes it as 'journalism with empathy.'

In The Gomantak Times, the great Goan writer Mario Cabral e Sa writes, 'Sonia, a superb documentarist of the underworld, stunned me with her daring, compassion and empathy.'

On Epic India, Vinod Joseph, author of The Hitchhiker, is kind enough to point out that I've done something 'few reporters ever have'.

On Helter Skelter, critic Bronwyn McBride says Beautiful Thing displays 'the intimacy of a best friend.'

On his eponymous blog, critic Soni Somarajan says Beautiful Thing demonstrates an 'endearing empathy'. He calls it 'chillingly accurate.'

And more from the mainstream media: In The Sunday Guardian, poet Sharanya Manivannan writes, 'Faleiro's triumph: to have seared into our consciousnesses – and more importantly, our consciences – a Leela so forcefully alluring that we are dismayed to have to let her go.'

And in The Sunday Pioneer, author Lata Jagtiani writes that Beautiful Thing is 'riveting', 'painfully honest' and 'dares to go where angels fear to tread.'

If you've reviewed Beautiful Thing on your blog, do mention the link in the comments section. And if you'd like to write a review on Goodreads, you can do so here.

To order your copy of Beautiful Thing in India visit Flipkart, to order it outside India stop by NBC India

Photos: The India edition of Beautiful Thing created by the super-talented Nitesh Mohanty and the gorgeous Australia/New Zealand edition of the book, out in May this year. Other editions (UK and US) and translations will appear through 2012.