"Age Of Vice" is a fascinating read. It covers crime in India, in and around New Delhi, proving the only thing different between crime in the USA and New Delhi are geographics and the cusisine, which is refenced throughout.
The novel works in several generic ways--as a family saga, crime dramas, and a travelogue and food tour of the area. The characters, except Sunny Wadia, son of a crime syndicate leader, and one of the most entitled characters in fiction, have all come up from harsh backgrounds, but ended up in crime. Sunny has never done a day of work, and it shows throughout. Hey, even criminals have a work ethic!
Deepit Kapoor is a new and fascinating author. She writes and plots narrative well and can keep characters focused throughout a lengthy story. But it needed to be shorter, maybe four hundred some pages, instead of five.
Meaning I would not skip her next book. I only hope it tops the good start she has gotten off to here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
there’s some sort of misguided belief among authors that longer is Better.
ReplyDeleteI say, Less is More!!
Sometimes, anyway.
Not everyone is Michener or Proust!!!!
Victoria,
ReplyDeleteI am with you. This book would have been better,
had it been shortened. Leave the longer works to
those who have already written them.