IN CUSTODY

DESAI, ANITA

ISBN 10: 0099428490 / ISBN 13: 9780099428497

Published by VINTAGE, Argentina, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: IN CUSTODY
• Publisher: VINTAGE, Argentina
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099428490
• ISBN 13: 9780099428497
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: 28

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.