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In Custody
In Custody
Author: Anita Desai
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060390389
ISBN-10: 0060390387
Publication Date: 2/1985
Pages: 203
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Publisher: Harpercollins
Book Type: Hardcover
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What madness drew Deven out of the safety of his little world-and into the greatest disaster of his life? Deven is a lecturer at a small college in Northern India. When a friend asks Deven to interview the greatest living poet in Delhi, Deven realizes his mistake too late. But somewhere between the poet's grim reality and Deven's boyish expectations, Deven discovers a new kind of dignity.


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