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Custody

A Novel

Manju Kapur
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Pages
421
Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
Open Road Media

About

An unforgettable novel about what happens when a marriage collapses. Shagun is a woman of unassailable social standing, married to a man chosen for her - a rising executive. Her lover is her husband's boss. She asks for a divorce, and all hell breaks loose. Locked in a venomous legal battle for custody of their eight-year-old son and two-year-old daughter, Shagun and Raman begin a journey that will have unforetold consequences. Set against the backdrop of upper-middle-class South Delhi, Custody is both a searing indictment of India's judicial system and an intimate portrait of a failing marriage and a family.

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Reviews

"Manju Kapur again pulls off her remarkable tightrope act as an intelligent literary novelist who writes characters and plots so gripping you can hardly bear her books to end. How does she do it? By cutting down on description, interior monologue and philosophising, and focusing instead on the climactic choices and driving passions of a group of largely self-deluding characters."
The Sunday Times
"In the accumulation of detail, and her tone of emotional restraint, Custody becomes something more than just a social commentary, but a novel that is true to the universal angst of modern marriage, with its burden of individualism."
The Observer

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