<b>A highly charged fiction debut about a young woman in India, and the love that both shatters and transforms her</b><br> <br>She is twenty, restless in New Delhi. Her mother has died; her father has left for Singapore. <br><br>He is a few years older, just back to India from New York.<br><br>When they meet in a caf&eacute; one afternoon, she&mdash;lonely, hungry for experience, yearning to break free of tradition&mdash;casts aside her fears and throws herself headlong into a love affair, one that takes her where she has never been before. <br><br>Told in a voice at once gritty and lyrical, mournful and frank, <i>A Bad Character</i> 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.