**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** 'Haunting ... lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned' Sunday Times 'A compelling whodunnit ... Devastating' Financial Times 'Transfixing' New York Times 'A powerful, unflinching account of misogyny, female shame and the notion of honour' Observer ___________________ A masterly and agenda-setting inquest into how the deaths of two teenage girls shone a light into the darkest corners of a nation Katra Sadatganj. A tiny village in western Uttar Pradesh. A community bounded by tradition and custom; where young women are watched closely, and know what is expected of them. It was an ordinary night when two girls, Padma and Lalli, went missing. The next day, their bodies were found - hanging in the orchard, their clothes muddied. In the ensuing months, the investigation into their deaths would implode everything that their small community held to be true, and instigated a national conversation about sex, honour and violence. The Good Girls returns to the scene of Padma and Lalli's short lives and shocking deaths, daring to ask: what is the human cost of shame?
Sonia Faleiro Boeken
Sonia Faleiro duikt in de fascinerende en vaak verborgen werelden binnen de samenleving, met een specifieke focus op de Indiase context. Haar reportages dringen diep door in de levens van degenen die vaak over het hoofd worden gezien, en onthullen de complexiteit van de menselijke ervaring met opmerkelijk empathisch vermogen. Faleiro heeft de gave om de rauwe realiteit vast te leggen en tegelijkertijd literaire diepgang te verlenen, waardoor werk ontstaat dat zowel hartverscheurend als inzichtelijk is. Haar schrijven dwingt lezers na te denken over sociale ongelijkheden en de buitengewone veerkracht van de menselijke geest.
