Summary
Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India’s greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a project that can only end in disaster.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780099428497 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0099428490 |
| Author: | Anita Desai |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2001 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 15mm |
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A major attempt to tackle serious themes… extraordinarily rich in incident and detail. * Sebastian Faulks *Anita Desai’s most subtle and mature work to date… She retains an unforced and powerful ease in conveying the colour and sounds and sensations of Indian life. * Times Literary Supplement *A wry, gently humorous novel, full of wisdom and restraint… The author chronicles India lovingly but it would be a mistake to think of her simply as an Indian writer, for her themes are universal * Financial Times *
About The Author
Anita Desai
Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include many award-winning short story collections and novels, three of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, most recently Fasting, Feasting. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and lives in New York State.
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