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| Book: | In Custody |
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| Author: | Anita Desai |
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| Publisher: | Vintage |
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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.
