In Custody by Anita Desai Paperback Book 9780099428497

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.

Genre: Media > Books > Print Books > Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Year of Publication: 2001 Classification: Media > Books > Print Books > Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Publisher: Vintage Publishing Country of Publication: United Kingdom Package Dimension Length: 19.5 cm Package Dimension Width: 12.9 cm Package Dimension Height: 1.7 cm ISBN: 9780099428497