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A Bad Character

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The highly acclaimed story of a young woman in New Dehli, and the love that both shatters and forever changes heroffering an intimate and raw exploration of female transformation in contemporary India, and an unforgettable hymn to a dangerous, exhilarating city.
“Searing.... Intoxicating.” —The New York Times Book Review

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.

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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • Release date: January 20, 2015

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9780385352758
  • Release date: January 20, 2015

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780385352758
  • File size: 2527 KB
  • Release date: January 20, 2015

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Fiction Literature

Languages

English

The highly acclaimed story of a young woman in New Dehli, and the love that both shatters and forever changes heroffering an intimate and raw exploration of female transformation in contemporary India, and an unforgettable hymn to a dangerous, exhilarating city.
“Searing.... Intoxicating.” —The New York Times Book Review

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.

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