A Bad Character - Brossura

Kapoor, Deepti

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ISBN 10: 0804171335 ISBN 13: 9780804171335

Casa editrice: Vintage Books, 2015

Riassunto

A highly charged fiction debut about a young woman in India, and the love that both shatters and transforms her

She is twenty, restless in New Delhi. Her mother has died; her father has left for Singapore.

He is a few years older, just back to India from New York.

When they meet in a café one afternoon, she—lonely, hungry for experience, yearning to break free of tradition—casts aside her fears and throws herself headlong into a love affair, one that takes her where she has never been before.

Told in a voice at once gritty and lyrical, mournful and frank, A Bad Character marks the arrival of an astonishingly gifted new writer. It is an unforgettable hymn to a dangerous, exhilarating city, and a portrait of desire and its consequences as timeless as it is universal.
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Recensione:

“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

L'autore:

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.
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• Editore: Vintage Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0804171335
• ISBN 13: 9780804171335
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 243