A bad character
Kapoor, Deepti2014
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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 a chance encounter with a charismatic, dangerous young man.
Main title:
A bad character / Deepti Kapoor.
Author:
Kapoor, Deepti, author
Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2014.London : Jonathan Cape, 2014.
Collation:
232 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780224099615 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92FICTIONGEN
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
1561931