A Bad Character
by Deepti Kapoor
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0224099612
- ISBN 13
- 9780224099615
- Seller
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Wamuran, Queensland, Australia
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About This Item
In very good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights of books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.
My boyfriend died when I was twenty.-one. His body was left lying broken in 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.
This is the story of Idha, a young woman who finds escape from the arranged marriage and security that her middle-class world has to offer through the chance encounter with a charismatic, dangerous young man. She is quickly exposed to the thrilling, often illicit pleasures that both the city, Delhi, and her body can hold. But as the affair continues, and her double life deepens, her lover's increasingly unstable behaviour carries them past the point of no return, where grief, love and violence threaten to transform his madness into her own.
My boyfriend died when I was twenty.-one. His body was left lying broken in 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.
This is the story of Idha, a young woman who finds escape from the arranged marriage and security that her middle-class world has to offer through the chance encounter with a charismatic, dangerous young man. She is quickly exposed to the thrilling, often illicit pleasures that both the city, Delhi, and her body can hold. But as the affair continues, and her double life deepens, her lover's increasingly unstable behaviour carries them past the point of no return, where grief, love and violence threaten to transform his madness into her own.
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- Seller
- DASHbooks (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- DASHbooks62
- Title
- A Bad Character
- Author
- Deepti Kapoor
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0224099612
- ISBN 13
- 9780224099615
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2014
- Keywords
- deepti kapoor, bad character, family saga novel, delhi, desert, marriage, dangerous, grief, love, violence,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Novel; Family Saga;
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