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by Anita Desai · · tapa blanda · 277 pages
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En Custodia, de Anita Desai, es una novela que explora temas de identidad, tradición y el choque entre el mundo moderno y el pasado. La historia sigue a Deven, un profesor de hindi que se siente atrapado en su vida y matrimonio. Su vida da un giro inesperado cuando tiene la oportunidad de entrevistar a un famoso poeta urdu, Nur Shah, a quien admira profundamente. A medida que Deven se involucra más en la vida de Nur, se enfrenta a desafíos inesperados y descubre verdades sobre sí mismo y el mundo que lo rodea. La novela está ambientada en la India y ofrece una visión conmovedora de la cultura y las complejidades de las relaciones humanas.
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.
