In Custody

Informationen zum Autor Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her published works include many award-winning short story collections and novels, three of which have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, most recently Fasting, Feasting . She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and lives in New York State. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Anita Desai, Desai Anita
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.07.2001
• EAN: 9780099428497
• ISBN: 978-0-09-942849-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Humorous / General, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, India, Humorous fiction, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Northern India