Romantic encoutners of a sex worker / Nalini Jameela ; translated by Reshma Bharadwaj
Material type: TextPublisher: Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India : Om Books International, 2018Description: 181 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9789385273919 (paperback)
- 9385273914
- Sex worker
- Oru laiṅgikattol̲ilāḷiyuṭe ātmakatha. English
- 23 306.74095483 JAM 019914
- HQ239.K47 J3613 2018
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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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