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by Anita Desai · Penguin · tapa blanda · 208 pages
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In Custody es una conmovedora y a la vez divertida novela de Anita Desai que explora las aspiraciones y desventuras de un erudito de una pequeña ciudad en el norte de la India. A través de la historia de Deven, un profesor universitario que intenta entrevistar al gran poeta urdu, Nur Shah Jahanabadi, Desai examina temas como la desilusión, la decadencia cultural y la búsqueda de significado en un mundo cambiante. La novela, ambientada en la India contemporánea, ofrece una mirada íntima a la vida de sus personajes y a las complejidades de la sociedad 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.
