Thousand faces of night (Record no. 221617)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20220303102243.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780140128437 |
| 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 | 823 |
| Item number | HART |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Githa Hariharan |
| 9 (RLIN) | 21936 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Thousand faces of night |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | USA |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1992 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 139p. |
| Other physical details | PB |
| Dimensions | 20x13cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Source of price type code | General |
| Price type code | 5944 |
| Price amount | ₹200.00 |
| Currency code | ₹ |
| Unit of pricing | ₹250.00 |
| Price note | 20% |
| Price effective from | 18-02-2022 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Winner of the commonwealth writers prize |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Winner of the 1993 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book What makes a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother? What makes a good Indian woman? Devi returns to Madras with an American degree, only to be sucked in by the old order of things a demanding mother’s love, a suitable but hollow marriage, an unsuitable lover who offers a brief escape. But the women of the hoary past come back to claim Devi through myth and story, music and memory. They show her what it is to stay and endure what it is to break free and move on.Sita has been the ideal daughter-in-law, wife and mother. But now that she has arranged a marriage for her daughter she has to come to terms with an old dream of her own. Mayamma knows how to survive as the old family retainer, bending the way the wind blows. But, through Devi, she too can see a different life. A subtle and tender tale of women's lives in India, this award-winning novel is structured with the delicacy and precision of a piece of music. Fusing myth, tale and the real voices of different women, The Thousand Faces of Night brings alive the underworld of Indian women’s lives. ‘ |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Source of heading or term | Literature |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | English Fiction |
| 9 (RLIN) | 21937 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Date last checked out | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | MA English | St Aloysius PG Library | St Aloysius PG Library | 02/23/2022 | Biblios Book Point | 200.00 | 4 | 823 HART | PG023623 | 07/22/2025 | 04/15/2025 | 250.00 | 02/25/2022 | Book |
