City of Good Death (Record no. 220316)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780670094967
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 820.33
Item number CHAC
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Priyanka Champaneri
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9 (RLIN) 9415
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title City of Good Death
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. USA
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Viking
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2021
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 432 p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 22x14 cm.
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price type code BLCR-000062
Price amount ₹479.20
Currency code ₹
Unit of pricing ₹599.00
Price note 04-10-2021
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Banaras, Varanasi, Kashi. India’s holy city on the banks of the Ganges has many names but holds one ultimate promise for Hindus. It is the place where pilgrims come for a good death, to be released from the cycle of reincarnation by purifying fire.<br/>As the dutiful manager of a death hostel in Kashi, Pramesh welcomes the dying and assists the families bound for the funeral pyres that burn constantly on the ghats. ‘The soul is gone, the body is burnt, the time is past,’ he tells them. ‘Detach.’ After ten years in the timeless city, Pramesh can nearly persuade himself that here there is no past or future. He lives contentedly with his wife, Shobha, their young daughter, Rani, the hostel priests, his hapless but winning assistant, and the constant flow of families with their dying.<br/>But one day the past arrives in the lifeless form of a man pulled from the river-a man with an uncanny resemblance to Pramesh. Called ‘twins’ in their childhood village, he and his cousin Sagar were inseparable until Pramesh left to see the world and Sagar stayed back to look after the land. After Pramesh married Shobha, defying his family’s wishes, a rift opened up between the cousins that he had long since tried to forget.<br/>For Shobha, Sagar’s reemergence casts a shadow over the life she’s built for her family. Soon, an unwelcome guest takes up residence in the death hostel, the dying mysteriously continue to live and Pramesh is forced to confront his own ideas about death, rebirth and redemption.<br/>Told in lush, vivid detail with an unforgettable cast of characters, The City of Good Death is a remarkable debut novel about family and love, memory and ritual, and the ways in which we honour the living and the dead.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Fiction
9 (RLIN) 9416
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name CHAMPANERI (Priyanka)
9 (RLIN) 9417
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     English St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 10/12/2021 Navakarnataka Publications Pvt.Ltd. 479.00 1 820.33 CHAC 075030 02/29/2024 02/19/2024 599.00 10/30/2021 Book