MARC details
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02896nam a2200313 a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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33858 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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BD-DhAAL |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20230305120720.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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181022t20182017uk ||||| |||| 00| 1 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780241980767 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780670089635 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
BD-DhAAL |
| Transcribing agency |
BD-DhAAL |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
823.914 |
| Edition number |
23 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Roy, Arundhati |
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28538 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The ministry of utmost happiness / |
| Remainder of title |
Arundhati Roy |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Random House UK : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Books, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2017, 2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
445 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
"This is a Borzoi book"--Back of title page. |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Where do old birds go to die? -- Khwabgah -- The nativity -- Dr. Azad Bhartiya -- The slow-goose chase -- Some questions for later -- The landlord -- The tenant -- The untimely death of Miss Jebeen the First -- The ministry of utmost happiness -- The landlord -- Guih Kyom. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"A richly moving new novel--the first since the author's Booker Prize-winning, internationally celebrated debut, The God of Small Things, went on to become a beloved best seller and enduring classic. The Ministry of Utmost Happiness transports us across a subcontinent on a journey of many years. It takes us deep into the lives of its gloriously rendered characters, each of them in search of a place of safety--in search of meaning, and of love. In a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk, a baby suddenly appears, just after midnight. In a snowy valley, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once a love story and a provocation--a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper, in a shout, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes, both present and departed, have been broken by the world we live in--and then mended by love. For this reason, they will never surrender. How to tell a shattered story? By slowly becoming everybody. No. By slowly becoming everything. Humane and sensuous, beautifully told, this extraordinary novel demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts" |
| 526 ## - STUDY PROGRAM INFORMATION NOTE |
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| Program name |
ENH |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Interpersonal relations |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
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28539 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Self-realization |
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Fiction. |
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28540 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Self-realization. |
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28541 |
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English literature. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
42973 |
| 852 ## - LOCATION/CALL NUMBER |
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| Location |
Ayesha Abed Library |
| Shelving location |
General Stacks |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Item type |
Book |
