A Bad Character, by Deepti Kapoor
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Our narrator is “twenty and untouched” when her mother dies. Sent by her absentee father to live with a relative in a modest New Delhi apartment, she is ill-equipped to resist the allure of the rich and rebellious young man who approaches her one day at a cafe. He is a few years older, and from a different social class, but they both yearn to break free of tradition. As they drive around Delhi—eating, making love, falling apart—he introduces her to an India that she never knew existed, and will never be able to forget. Told in a voice at once gritty and lyrical, A Bad Character is an astounding book, an intimate and raw exploration of female transformation in contemporary India, and an unforgettable hymn to a dangerous, exhilarating city.
A Bad Character, by Deepti Kapoor - Amazon Sales Rank: #1448445 in Books
- Published on: 2015-11-24
- Released on: 2015-11-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .80" w x 5.20" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 256 pages
A Bad Character, by Deepti Kapoor Review “Searing, intoxicating . . . . The story of a young woman’s hunger to be free.” —The New York Times Book Review “A fiery, incandescent debut [that] artfully captures the perilous desires of a woman alone in New Delhi. Kapoor’s novel smolders with submerged rage, pain, abandonment and erotic desire. . . . Promises great things to come.” —The Huffington Post “A dark, hypnotic story.” —Hanya Yanagihara, author of A Little Life “[Kapoor] writes with a keening, furious sorrow that rang in my ears well after I finished the book.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “Marguerite Duras meets new India.” —Vogue.com“Captivating . . . A Bad Character echoes Nabokov’s Lolita with a story about the sexual initiation of a young woman, but offers a female perspective, one that doesn’t pull any punches. . . . Literary voices like Kapoor’s . . . are now more crucial than ever.” —The Rumpus“Spellbinding: Here is a novel about sex, about drugs, about a city on the brink of awe-inspiring and terrible change.” —Nell Freudenberger, author of The Newlyweds“India, once again. Its dark underbelly—flashing images of poverty and squalor, corruption and drugs and, above all, battered lives . . . Here’s a young woman, named Deepti Kapoor, picking up where the others have left off, adding something here (a female protagonist), subtracting something there (sentiment), splashing into our lives like the beginning of the monsoon hitting Delhi’s streets. And the irony of it all? By the last page you have to ask yourself who is the bad character of her title: the unnamed female narrator, or the man whose life she believes she has unpacked so carefully.” —Counterpunch“A stylishly written, powerfully moving love story. . . . What Twilight in Delhi is to the 20th century Indian novel, A Bad Character is to the 21st: the essence of India’s corrupt capital, brilliantly and darkly distilled. This is a remarkable debut from a major new talent.” —William Dalrymple, author of The Last Mughal“Riveting . . . Kapoor’s debut novel is a coming-of-age tale as complex, gritty and frankly terrifying as Delhi, the city that forms its backdrop.” —Bustle“An intimate, raw exploration of [a] profound transformation.” —Booklist“Sharply told.” —Largehearted Boy “Haunting . . . . A beguiling, hallucinatory experience, at once unsettling and intimate. . . . A Bad Character is an astounding book: read it with the scent of diesel in your nostrils and red dust in your mouth.” —The New Indian Express“A poignant and impressionistic portrait of the end of adolescence and a changing world.”—The Telegraph (London) “Impressive in its . . . evocation of a dazzling, dangerous cityscape.” —Kirkus
About the Author Deepti Kapoor grew up in Northern India and attended college in New Delhi, where she worked for several years as a journalist. A Bad Character is her first novel. She lives in Goa.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. My boyfriend died when I was twenty-one. His body was left lying broken on the highway out of Delhi while the sun rose in the desert to the east. I wasn’t there, I never saw it. But plenty of others saw, in the trucks that passed by without stopping and from the roadside dhaba where he’d been drinking all night.Then they wrote about him in the paper. Twelve lines buried in the middle pages, one line standing out, the last one, in which a cop he’d never met said to the reporter, He was known to us, he was a bad character.It’s a phrase they use sometimes, what some people still say. It’s what they’ll say about me too, when they know what I’ve done.Him and me,(long dead).Sitting in the café in Khan Market the day we met, in April, when the indestructible heat was rising in the year, sinking in the day, the sun setting very red, sacrificing itself to the squat teeth of buildings stretching back round the stinking Yamuna into Uttar Pradesh.The city is a furnace on days like these, the aching heart of a cremation ground.· · ·But inside the café you wouldn’t know it; inside it’s cool, the AC is on, the windows are politely shuttered, it could be any time of day in here; in here you could forget the city, its ceaseless noise, its endless quarry of people. You could feel safe.Only he’s staring at me.Twenty and untouched. It’s a sin. For twenty years I’ve been waiting for this one thing.Idha.In the mirror.I give myself a name, I wear it out. Lunar, serpentine, desirous. A charm that protects me.
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Not such a bad character after all, yet with some flaws. By Denkmuster Being Indo-German myself, I'm somewhat into Indian literature. The book was recommended in the newspaper and it sounded quite interesting. As I used to be in India at that time, I bought the book.Having finished this book, I'm not quite sure what to think of it.This is a story about a young woman torn between tradition and duties, her personal freedom and expectations and apparently several men she has sexual relationships with. So far, that sounds as if this could be an interesting read.The first half (or even roughly two thirds) of it went quite smoothly and I could follow both the "outer action" as well as the "inner action", meaning thoughts and feelings.However, the further I read, the more did Kapoor give the reader a hard time to follow her as she frequently changes the narrative perspective, employing a total of three different perspectives.When Kapoor's protagonist starts taking drugs more and more often, the frequency of change of perspectives increases to a dizzying level.Having studied literature myself, I'm able to appreciate a lot of different styles, but this one was definitely hard to follow and strained my concentration (as well as my motivation to read on).I do certainly understand the change of perspectives as a stylistic means to show the world the protagonist lives in and how the world is perceived by her. But once the change of perspectives had reached the level previously mentioned I couldn't help perceiving this as rather artificial.On the other hand, I liked the deep insight into Delhi and the city's countless facets given to the reader by Kapoor. Although I only know Mumbai and Hyderabad as larger metropolitan areas, her descriptions of the Delhi let the city appear like a voracious giant - yet not without beautiful spots and features.Putting it in a nutshell, this book has several interesting topics and a basically thrilling main story, but composition and style make it a straining read when getting closer to the ending.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Facing up to one's deepest, darkest desires By Z Hayes This is a rather unusual novel: the narrative method is through stream of consciousness, and the protagonist, a twenty-year-old young Indian woman, is nameless. The story centers around said young woman who floats around, lost. She lives with her aunt and feels a keen sense of something missing in her life. Then she meets a man who is all wrong for her: he manipulates her, uses her, and she finds she likes it. The story is set in 21st century Delhi and what comes through the book is the raw, visceral Delhi, not the ones you would picture - no demure young, innocent here, but a young woman who experiences her sexual awakening. The language is sparse and makes for easy reading, but above all, enables the reader to visualize the young woman's experiences with perfect clarity. I would not say this is for everyone, but if you are keen to try something different, "A Bad Character" just might be something to titillate the senses.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Dark, dismal, and confusing By Neal Reynolds Not only is the character bad. The book itself is bad. It's a dark and dismal look at Delhi It is also confusing with constant change in voice and in timeline. It's not all that long a book, but it becomes a tedious chore to work through. I'm sorry, but this just isn't worth your time or effort.
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