Journey interrupted (Record no. 216051)
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fixed length control field | 01949nam a2200217Ia 4500 |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
control field | 20220328192606.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
International Standard Book Number | 9788172237554 |
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Classification number | 325.2 VER |
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Personal name | Versey, Farzana |
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Journey interrupted |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New Delhi |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | HarperCollins |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2008 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Extent | 279 p. |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
Price amount | 295 |
365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
Unit of pricing | RS |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc. | You need to be deported, said the retired army general. What follows is not deportation but the beginning of an exploration. An exploration that is nuanced by the identity of the narrator: an Indian Muslim woman travelling alone in a space notoriously difficult to negotiate, vis-Ã -vis its history and politics.<br/>From travelling in the cockpit of the PIA aircraft to having the door shut in her face by a born-again nationalist to attending parties in perfumed salons to examining the minorities; from being treated as a philistine to engaging in enlivening conversations with those who had to pay the price for dissent, the author attempts to understand what it means to live in Pakistan today.<br/><br/>In the course of her journey, at times interrupted, through the cities of Karachi, Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar, Farzana Versey finds herself struggling with her own identity. When I was on the soil of the land of the pure, my impurity struck me. I was the emotional mulatto, she writes.<br/><br/>A Journey Interrupted is not your conventional travelogue. In the vignettes the author weaves together, of living and travelling in a complex society, the personal becomes the political. And the picture that emerges is of a changing nation with a unique mix of religious tradition and barely-in-check liberalism. In these times of political and social unrest in Pakistan, this is a timely book one that delves into the Pakistani mind and traces the chasms in its recent history. |
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
Topical term or geographic name entry element | Emigration-Indian |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Koha item type | Books |
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Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Cost, normal purchase price | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Cost, replacement price | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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Not Missing | Not Damaged | Gandhi Smriti Library | Gandhi Smriti Library | 2020-02-08 | 295.00 | 325.2 VER | 133664 | 2020-02-08 | 295.00 | 2020-02-08 | Books |