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CONTROL NUMBER |
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00007376 |
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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200612041021 |
FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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030415s2005 nyu g 000 f eng d |
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2003050769 |
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
1400033764 (pbk.) |
CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
AKD |
Transcribing agency |
AKD |
Modifying agency |
CFU |
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OCLCQ |
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BAKER |
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OCLCQ |
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WYU |
LANGUAGE CODE |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text |
fre |
GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
Geographic area code |
a-af--- |
AUTHOR NAME |
AUTHOR NAME |
Khadra, Yasmina. |
UNIFORM TITLE |
Uniform title |
Hirondelles de Kaboul. |
Language of a work |
English. |
TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The swallows of Kabul / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Yasmina Khadra ; translated from the French by John Cullen. |
EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1st Anchor Books ed. |
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Anchor Books, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2005. |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
195 p. ; |
Dimensions |
21 cm. |
SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this novel takes readers into the lives of two couples: Mohsen, who comes from a family of wealthy shopkeepers whom the Taliban has destroyed; Zunaira, his wife, exceedingly beautiful, who was once a brilliant teacher and is now no longer allowed to leave her home without an escort or covering her face. Intersecting their world is Atiq, a prison keeper, a man who has sincerely adopted the Taliban ideology and struggles to keep his faith, and his wife, Musarrat, who once rescued Atiq and is now dying. |
ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Cullen, John, |
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
02. English Fiction |
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
d |
F KHA |
c |
314 |