num_pages: 225
description: 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.
language: English
title: In Custody
titlecomplete: In Custody
genres: Literary Fiction, Literature, Fiction, Asia, Contemporary, India, Adult Fiction, Indian Literature, Novels, Classics
ratings_count: 1883
awards: awardedAt: 441792000000
name: Booker Prize
publisher: VINTAGE (RAND)