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The death of Vishnu (Record no. 38138)
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| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20210302151639.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 160316s2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780393050424 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | n |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813.600000 |
| Item number | SUR |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Suri Manil |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The death of Vishnu |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | New York |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Harper Perennial |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2002 |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price amount | Gratis |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Description: <br/>At the opening of this masterful debut novel, Vishnu lies dying on the staircase he inhabits while his neighbors the Pathaks and the Asranis argue over who will pay for an ambulance. As the action spirals up through the floors of the apartment building we are pulled into the drama of the residents' lives: Mr. Jalal's obsessive search for higher meaning; Vinod Taneja's longing for the wife he has lost; the comic elopement of Kavita Asrani, who fancies herself the heroine of a Hindi movie.<br/><br/>Suffused with Hindu mythology, this story of one apartment building becomes a metaphor for the social and religious divisions of contemporary India, and Vishnu's ascent of the staircase parallels the soul's progress through the various stages of existence. As Vishnu closes in on the riddle of his own mortality, we wonder whether he might not be the god Vishnu, guardian not only of the fate of the building and its occupants, but of the entire universe. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | 1. Fiction - Apartments Houses - Bombay 2. Servants - Deaths |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
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| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | BOOKs |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Not For Loan | National Law School | National Law School | NKCR SECTION | 30.05.2017 | 813.6 SUR | 32207 | 30.05.2017 | 30.05.2017 | BOOKs |
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