In Custody
Anita Desai
Deven, a Hindi lecturer in small-town Mirpore, lives a humdrum existence. A chance to interview Nur—India's greatest living Urdu poet—offers him an escape from his dreary life. But the Nur he meets is an enfeebled man, surrounded by clashing wives and preying sycophants. Deven's decision to be the custodian of Nur's verse gives birth to an unusual alliance between the two. In Custody is a brilliant parable lamenting the gradual corrosion of culture and tradition in the face of modernity, and a dazzling study of the complexity of human relationships.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Year
- 2012
- ISBN-13
- 9788184003291
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topics
- Search for identity and purposeDecline of culture and traditionComplex human relationships
Awards
- The Booker PrizeShortlistedMajor(1984)
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