000 -LEADER |
fixed length control field |
01465 am a22003011a 4500 |
CONTROL NUMBER |
control field |
9780385670661WHT |
CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
OAUW |
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20121030093206.0 |
FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
110105s2013 onc 000 f eng |
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER |
Record control number |
20119001128 |
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9780385670661 |
CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
CaOONL |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Transcribing agency |
CaOONL |
Modifying agency |
CaOAUW |
CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED IN CANADA |
Classification number |
PS8587 E445 |
Item number |
H85 2012 |
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
Classification number |
C813/.54 |
Edition number |
22 |
AUTHOR NAME |
AUTHOR NAME |
Selvadurai, Shyam, |
TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The hungry ghosts / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Shyam Selvadurai. |
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Toronto : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Doubleday Canada, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
c2013 |
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
372 p. ; |
Dimensions |
25 cm. |
SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
The long-awaited new novel by the award-winning, bestselling author of FUNNY BOY and CINNAMON GARDENS. In Sri Lankan myth, a person who dies may be reborn a "hungry ghost" - a ghost with a large stomach that can never be filled through its tiny mouth - if he has desired too much during his life. It is the duty of the living to free the dead who are doomed to this fate by transferring karma from their own good deeds. Shivan, a troubled young man of mixed Tamil and Sinhalese ancestry, is preparing to travel from Toronto, Canada, to the land of his childhood, Sri Lanka, to rescue his ailing grandmother and bring her back to die. |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Gay men |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Grandmothers |
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Canadian fiction. |
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Koha item type |
02. English Fiction |
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC) |
d |
F SEL |
c |
314 |