In Custody
by Desai, Anita
Anita Desai was born and educated in India. Her novels Fasting Feasting, Clear Light of Day and In Custody were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the American Academy of Arts and Letters as well as a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge. She teaches in the Writing Program at M.I.T. and divides her time between India, Massachusetts and England.
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