by Anita Desai · Random House UK · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099428497
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«In Custody» is a literary novel by Anita Desai, published by Random House UK in paperback (225 pages, in English).
Deven, a university professor in northern India, sees the interview with the Urdu poet Nur as a way out of his routine. But the old man he finds in Old Delhi is not the idol he imagined, and the assignment leads to deceptions and comic situations that drag him into a new form of captivity.
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984; the first edition, published by Heinemann in London, appeared that same year.
For readers interested in literary fiction, Indian culture, and bittersweet stories set in small-town environments.
Anita Desai is an Indian novelist and the emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize three times. She received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1978 for her novel Fire on the Mountain, from the Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Literature. She won the Guardian Prize for The Village by the Sea (1983). Her other works include Cry, the Peacock, Voices in the City (1963), Fire on the Mountain (1977) and an anthology of short stories, Games at Twilight (1978). She is on the advisory board of the Lalit Kala Akademi and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, London. Since 2020 she has been a Companion of Literature.
