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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 05/07/2001
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ISBN: 9780099428497
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 170g
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RRP: £8.99
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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Imprint: Vintage
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Published: 05/07/2001
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ISBN: 9780099428497
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Length: 240 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm
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Weight: 170g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"A major attempt to tackle serious themes... extraordinarily rich in incident and detail."
Sebastian Faulks
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"Anita 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 Supplement
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"A 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 Times
