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In Custody

Author(s): Anita Desai

Location(s): North India

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 20th Century

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.

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