The glass bead curtain / (Record no. 43262)
[ view plain ]
000 -LEADER | |
---|---|
fixed length control field | 02045cam a22002537i 4500 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
control field | CUTN |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
control field | 20240719153232.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
fixed length control field | 160712s2016 ii 000 1 eng |
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. |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type | General Books |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
Relator term | author. |
906 ## - LOCAL DATA ELEMENT F, LDF (RLIN) | |
a | 7 |
b | cbc |
c | origode |
d | 4 |
e | ncip |
f | 20 |
g | y-gencatlg |
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 |