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In Custody
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Literatura y FicciónISBN | 9780140238136
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Pages: 208 pages
Author: Anita Desai
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780140238136
Format: tapa blanda
Language: en
Release date: 1/8/1994
ISBN: 9780140238136
Synopsis of In Custody
In Custody, escrita por Anita Desai, es una conmovedora novela que explora temas de desilusión, el declive de la cultura urdu en la India y la búsqueda de significado en la vida cotidiana. La historia sigue a Deven, un profesor universitario que se encuentra con la oportunidad de entrevistar a un renombrado poeta urdu, Nur Shahjahanabadi, lo que lo lleva a un viaje de autodescubrimiento y a confrontar sus propias limitaciones y aspiraciones. A través de personajes complejos y una narrativa evocadora, Desai ofrece una reflexión profunda sobre la identidad, el legado cultural y la fragilidad de los sueños.
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Anita Desai
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.
Born in 1937Since 1963103 titles published63 writing
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