by Anita Desai · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420655796
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«En custodia» is the novel by Anita Desai, published by Alianza Editorial in paperback (277 pages, in Spanish).
Deven, a Hindi teacher trapped in his routine and his marriage, gets the opportunity to interview the famous Urdu poet Nur Shah. The encounter confronts him with unexpected challenges and questions about identity, tradition, and the clash between modern India and its past.
The work was published in the El Libro de Bolsillo - Literatura collection by Alianza Editorial.
For those seeking a novel about literature, identity, and tradition in India.
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.
