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02130cam a2200289 a 4500 |
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52152513 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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MACHS |
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20210413150541.0 |
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030415s2004 nyu 000 1 eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2003050769 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0385510012 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
| Modifying agency |
XY4 |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original |
fre |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
pcc |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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a-af--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PQ3989.2.K386 |
| Item number |
H5713 2004 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Khadra, Yasmina |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
<a href="Hirondelles de Kaboul.">Hirondelles de Kaboul.</a> |
| Language of a work |
English |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The swallows of Kabul / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Yasmina Khadra ; translated from the French by John Cullen |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2004 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
195 p. ; |
| Dimensions |
20 cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Set in Kabul under the rule of the Taliban, this extraordinary 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 of sickness and despair. Desperate, exhausted Mohsen wanders through Kabul when he is surrounded by a crowd about to stone an adulterous woman. Numbed by the hysterical atmosphere and drawn into their rage, he too throws stones at the face of the condemned woman buried up to her waist. With this gesture the lives of all four protagonists move toward their destinies. The Swallows of Kabul is a dazzling novel written with compassion and exquisite detail by one of the most lucid writers about the mentality of Islamic fundamentalists and the complexities of the Muslim world. Yasmina Khadra brings readers into the hot, dusty streets of Kabul and offers them an unflinching but compassionate insight into a society that violence and hypocrisy have brought to the edge of despair |
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| Geographic name |
Kābol (Afghanistan) |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Cullen, John, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1942- |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type |
Books |
