The Dancing Girls of Lahore: Selling Love and Saving Dreams in Pakistan’s Ancient Pleasure District by Louise Brown [in AsianWeek]
04 Aug, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pakistani, Repost, South Asian
Breathtaking, heartbreaking account of the women trapped for generations in Pakistan’s pleasure quarter – once beloved, artistically gifted courtesans now reduced to devastating prostitution.
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