Hey, it's NPR's Book of the Day. I'm Andrew Limbaugh. The protagonists in our two books today

don't have much in common on the surface. One is a widowed jewelry maker. The other is more of a service

industry kind of guy. But in both books, the choices that they make, the situations and predicaments

they find themselves in are driven by the fact that they need money the situations and predicaments they find themselves in, are driven

by the fact that they need money, proving the adage that cash rules everything around them.

In a bit, we'll hear about that jewelry maker who finds herself accidentally becoming a hitman

of sorts, disposing of dirtbag husbands. But first, Deep T. Kapoor's age of vice is the talk of the town in

bookworld, getting a major book club promo and already interest from TV execs. It's about a young

man named Ajay, who, by all accounts, is invisible to other people. And Kapoor tells MPR Scott

Simon about being a young reporter in Udeli noticing all the a jays of the world,

but also the excess and decadence of the people who relied on the ayes of the world.

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Deep Deep Dekapur's Age of Vice begins with a crash, and it never lets up.

A rich man's car, New Delhi, 3 a.m., 2004, kills five people who live and sleep on the street.

The man at the wheel is A.J. He is 22, and stinks of whiskey. He sent to jail where he's attacked but then a jay attacks his attackers you see he's a wadhi a man and slowly we begin to see the life that put him

behind the wheel and which steers through so many forces of modern india age of vice is being

acclaimed as hypnotic and has already been compared to the

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