Romantic encoutners of a sex worker / Nalini Jameela ; translated by Reshma Bharadwaj

By:

Naḷini Jamīla, 1954- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Bharadvāj, Rēṣma [translator.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : Om Books International, 2018Description: 181 pages ; 20 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9789385273919 (paperback)
9385273914

Other title:

Sex worker

Uniform titles:

Oru laiṅgikattol̲ilāḷiyuṭe ātmakatha. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23 306.74095483 JAM 019914

LOC classification:

HQ239.K47 J3613 2018

Summary: The term 'sex worker' often conjures up images of solitary women standing on streets, soliciting clients. Romantic Encounters Of A Sex Worker, an engaging memoir by Nalini Jameela presents a fascinating story of the streets, the clients and life before and after the encounters. Nalini leads the reader through the nighttime fields and hedges, sleazy lodges hidden on the outskirts of cities, plantations shrouded in darkness, arak shops in the suburbs, vacant construction sites... Her narrative brings to life an arra of clients - landlords, forest officers, traveling salesmen, field hands, small-town lodge manages, police officers, supervisors and more, capturing humorously the pomposity, patronising behavior and pettiness of her clients --

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Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	306.74095483 JAM 019914 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		019914

The term 'sex worker' often conjures up images of solitary women standing on streets, soliciting clients. Romantic Encounters Of A Sex Worker, an engaging memoir by Nalini Jameela presents a fascinating story of the streets, the clients and life before and after the encounters. Nalini leads the reader through the nighttime fields and hedges, sleazy lodges hidden on the outskirts of cities, plantations shrouded in darkness, arak shops in the suburbs, vacant construction sites... Her narrative brings to life an arra of clients - landlords, forest officers, traveling salesmen, field hands, small-town lodge manages, police officers, supervisors and more, capturing humorously the pomposity, patronising behavior and pettiness of her clients --

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