The glass bead curtain / (Record no. 43262)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789382711797
025 ## - OVERSEAS ACQUISITION NUMBER
Overseas acquisition number I-E-2016317984; 26-91
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language English
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE
Authentication code lcode
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 894.811
Item number KAN
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Kannan, Lakshmi,
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title The glass bead curtain /
Statement of responsibility, etc Lakshmi Kannan.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc New Delhi :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Virasta Pub,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2016.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 393 pages ;
Dimensions 20 cm
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Novel.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Kalyani and Athai, two feisty women, sail through the turn- of- the- century Madras Presidency under British rule, despite archaic customs such as child marriage and a prescriptive widowhood. British influence encounters an ambivalent attitude that was contrary and at times uproariously hilarious. Kalyani’s child marriage ends her formal education because of a prevalent superstition that married girls would be widowed if sent to school. Tutored at home by the intrepid Susan O’Leary of Irish origin, Kalyani soaks up her irrepressible humour. O’Leary is equally delighted by the strapping girl’s passion for sports and athletics, but is anxious about her pupil’s future beyond the luminous beauty of the glass bead curtain in her father’s home. Kalyani, grows taller than her husband Natarajan. It becomes a contentious issue for her retrograde female in-laws who mock her height and her English. Kalyani battles her way through unfazed and evolves as a successful badminton coach with the unstinting support of her husband, father-in- law and grand mother-in- law. The intellectually endowed Athai uses her widowhood to pursue her education. The family discovers an astonishing secret about her, when she dies. A contemporary writer Shailaja “writes” the novel capturing the changing ethos of the people with the irony, pathos and humour that animate the period.
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Koha item type General Books
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Relator term author.
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Location Shelving location Date of Cataloging Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Fiction CUTN Central Library CUTN Central Library Literature 19/07/2024   894.811 KAN 48120 19/07/2024 19/07/2024 General Books

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