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In Custody by Anita Desai

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Also by Anita Desai:

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IN CUSTODY
By: Anita Desai

Penguin
August 1994
On Sale: August 1, 1994
208 pages
ISBN: 0140238131
EAN: 9780140238136
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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.

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