Deepti Kapoor Discusses Age of Vice with Parul Sehgal
b'Deepti Kapoor describes New Delhi, the setting of her novel \\u201cAge of Vice\\u201d as \\u201cextremely beautiful, but also violent. . . . It\\u2019s a place where you think you\\u2019re gonna get cheated and robbed until someone does something incredibly kind and breaks your heart.\\u201d The highly anticipated book, published simultaneously in twenty countries this month, is part crime thriller, part family saga centered on a reckless playboy who wants to break away from his mob family; a young man working as a servant to him; and a na\\xefve young journalist. Kapoor, who spent a decade as a journalist herself, tells Parul Sehgal that she wrote the book while living abroad\\u2014needing the distance from her country in order to see it more clearly.'