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| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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ocn144558731 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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EG-ScBUE |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20220227121256.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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061221r20052004ua f 000 1 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9789774248634 (pbk.) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9774248635 (pbk.) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)ocn144558731 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)144558731 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
BTCTA |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
BTCTA |
| Modifying agency |
BAKER |
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YDXCP |
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AKC |
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FDA |
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BDX |
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EG-ScBUE |
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EG-ScBUE |
| 041 1# - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
eng |
| Language code of original and/or intermediate translations of text |
ara |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
a-le--- |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
892.736 |
| Item number |
BAR |
| Edition number |
22 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Barakat, Hoda, |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 240 10 - UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
<a href="Harith al-miyah.">Harith al-miyah.</a> |
| Language of a work |
English |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The tiller of waters / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Hoda Barakat ; translated by Marilyn Booth. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
Second printing. |
| 264 #1 - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Cairo : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
The American University in Cairo Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2005. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
v, 176 pages ; |
| Dimensions |
20 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Source |
rdacontent |
| Content type term |
text |
| Content type code |
txt |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Source |
rdamedia |
| Media type term |
unmediated |
| Media type code |
n |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Source |
rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term |
volume |
| Carrier type code |
nc |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Modern Arabic literature |
| 490 0# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Modern Arabic writing |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"This spellbinding novel narrates the many-layered recollections of a hallucinating man in devastated Beirut. The desolate, almost surreal, urban landscape is enriched by the unfolding of the family sagas of Niqula Mitri and his beloved Shamsa, the Kurdish maid. Mitri reminisces about his Egyptian mother and his father who came back to settle in Beirut after a long stay in Egypt. Both Mitri and his father are textile merchants and see the world through the code of cloth, from the intimacy of linen, velvet, and silk to the most impersonal of synthetics. Shamsa in turn relates her story, the myriad adventures of her parents and grandparents who moved from Iraqi Kurdistan to Beirut. Haunting scenes of pastoral Kurds are juxtaposed against the sedentary decadence of metropolitan residents. Barakat weaves into her sophisticated narrative shreds of scientific discourse about herbal plants and textile crafts, customs and manners of Arabs, Armenians, and Kurds, mythological figures from ancient Greece, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, and Arabia, the theosophy of the African Dogons and the medieval Byzantines, and historical accounts of the Crusades in the Holy Land and the silk route to China."--Publisher description. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
Text in English ; translated from the Arabic. |
| 586 ## - AWARDS NOTE |
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| Awards note |
Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz medal for literature. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Source of heading or term |
BUEsh |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Beirut (Lebanon) |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| Source of heading or term |
BUEsh |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Resource For college |
Arabic Literature |
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Humanities: English |
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Generalities |
| Arrived date list |
March2017 |
| 655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Form subdivision |
Reading book |
| 9 (RLIN) |
34232 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Booth, Marilyn, |
| Relator term |
translator. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
40527 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type |
Book - Borrowing |