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 disaster.
A major attempt to tackle serious themes... extraordinarily rich in incident and detail.
—— Sebastian FaulksAnita Desai's most subtle and mature work to date... She retains an unforced and powerful ease in conveying the colour and sounds and sensations of Indian life.
—— Times Literary SupplementA wry, gently humorous novel, full of wisdom and restraint... The author chronicles India lovingly but it would be a mistake to think of her simply as an Indian writer, for her themes are universal
—— Financial TimesSuperbly powerful... A rich, evocative book
—— Spectator
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