# In Custody

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- Book: [In Custody](https://www.bookquiver.com/anita-desai/in-custody) ([In Custody.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/anita-desai/in-custody.md))
- Authors: [Anita Desai](https://www.bookquiver.com/anita-desai)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9942-849-7
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2001-07-05
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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.