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Sam Burt @wordsburt
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Jun 19, 2018
- Curated in Must-read Novels About Writers
“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.”