This is The New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker.

This is The New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick.

Age of Vice is a novel just published this month. Now, I hate the word buzzy, which seems a little

tried for a serious book, but Age of Vice was published in 20

countries simultaneously, which is hard to do for an author who isn't named, say, James Patterson.

The story takes place in New Delhi, the capital of India, and it's part crime thriller, part

family saga. The author is Deep T Kapoor, who spent a decade as a journalist in Delhi,

and she moves the action in Age of Vice between the poorest of the poor and the richest of the rich.

Deepty Kapoor talked this week with Parles Sagan, who's a staff writer at the New Yorker covering

literature and much more. So age of vice by Deepty Kapoor is this really fast-paced, shadowy novel that begins at 3 a.m.

on Adelaideast, this Mercedes has mowed down five people.

The novel then jumps back and tells a story with three different points of view.

There's Ajay, Servant, there's Sunny, this reckless

playboy, and Neda, a journalist who's caught up in the story. You know, it's Gosh to say that

one of the reasons I'm drawn to this book is an autobiographical element. I lived in Delhi at the

same time. I remember the pace of this. I remember the pulse, the harshness,

but also the wildness. I recognize this deli. And the book itself is this big copious embrace

of so many different kinds of storytelling. It feels like a thriller. It feels like true crime.

There's autobiography that is woven through it. And it's sort of trying to capture as many different ways of telling this story.

I mean, I should mention here that I know you. I parted with you in your 20s a little bit. I knew you in Delhi, right about the time that this novel is set.

And Delhi itself is such a big, brawny character in this book. But I think for people that

know Delhi, this book is like full of longing for it in a way that took my breath away.

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