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In custody / Anita Desai.
Van Pelt Library PR9499.3.D465 I53 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Desai, Anita, 1937-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Delhi (India)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Delhi (India).
- India--Delhi.
- Poets, Urdu--India--Delhi--Fiction.
- Poets, Urdu.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 233 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Haryana, India : Penguin Books, 2019.
- Summary:
- Deven, a Hindi lecturer at Lala Ram Lal College, Mirpore, can't quite believe his luck when he is asked to interview Nur, India's greatest Urdu poet. But the ailing, debauched old man he discovers in the lanes behind Delhi's Jama Masjid bears no resemblance to the idol of his youth, surrounded by feuding wives and a herd of parasitic followers who drink his whisky and eat his food. Timid, self-effacing Deven is emboldened even as he is bullied, cheated, and drawn into a new captivity. He will become estranged from his family and faculty and incur countless debts to attempt recording Nur's works for posterity - in a hired room that, typically, turns out to be part of a Chandni Chowk brothel.
- Notes:
- First published in 2017.
- "Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize"--Cover.
- Novel.
- ISBN:
- 9788184000139
- 8184000138
- OCLC:
- 1617328050
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