The Book of Secrets (Record no. 263308)
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| 000 -Encabezamiento | |
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| fixed length control field | 01987nam a2200229 a 4500 |
| 001 - Número de Control | |
| control field | 064921 |
| 005 - Fecha de Ultima Modificación | |
| control field | 20231009193154.0 |
| 008 - Elementos de Fongitud Fija--Información General | |
| fixed length control field | 180412s19941994can 000 u eng d |
| 020 ## - ISBN | |
| ISBN | 9780771087196 |
| 082 1# - Número de Clasificación Decimal Dewey | |
| No. de Clasificación | FIC VAS |
| No. de la Edición | |
| 100 1# - Entrada Principal - Nombre Personal | |
| Nombre Personal | Vassanji, M. G. |
| 245 14 - TÍTULO | |
| Título del material | The Book of Secrets |
| Mención de responsabilidad | / M. G. Vassanji |
| 260 ## - Publicación, Distribución, etc. (Pie de Imprenta) | |
| Lugar de Publicación, Distribución, etc. | Toronto |
| Nombre de la editorial, distribuidor, etc. | : McClelland and Stewart |
| Fecha de Publicación, Distribución, etc. | , c1994 |
| 300 ## - Descripción Física | |
| Extensión | 337 p. |
| Dimensiones | ; 23 cm. |
| 520 ## - Resumen, etc. | |
| Nota de resumen, etc. | Set in the racial melting pot of East Africa, where African, Arab, Indian, English and German cultures mesh. The plot has two major strands: the present, in which an Indian-born retired history teacher, Pius Fernandes, discovers a diary written by Alfred Corbin, an English consul stationed in British East Africa (now Kenya) in 1913; and the past of the diary entries themselves, whose gaps and omissions Fernandes imaginatively fills with his own narrative. Corbin is posted to Kikono, a small town near Mt. Kilimanjaro, where he falls in love with his housekeeper, Mariamu, a young local woman betrothed to a bumbling shopkeeper. After the marriage, she bears a son, Ali, who has suspiciously light-colored skin and gray eyes. The second part of the novel follows 'dashing' Ali's adventures as a successful salesman who moves to London with his young wife, Rita, who as a girl was a student of Fernandes's and with whom he was in love. In the present day, Rita visits Fernandes in Africa and ultimately convinces him to give up his prying into the lives of 'those who've lived a little more intensely than their neighbors.' The book is lush with evocations of East African physical, cultural and historical landscapes. But energy is lost as Vassanji indulges in discursive tangents about the nature of history at the expense of sustained dramatic storytelling. |
| 546 ## - Nota de Idioma | |
| Nota de idioma | English. |
| 586 ## - Nota sobre Premios | |
| Nota de premios | 1994 winner of The Giller Prize. |
| 650 #4 - Entradas Secundarias - Términos temáticos | |
| Tópico o nombre Geográfico | Asians |
| Subdivisión Geográfica | -Africa, East |
| Subdivisión general | -History |
| Subdivisión de forma | --Fiction |
| 655 #4 - Término Indizado - Género/Forma | |
| Genero/Forma | Historical fiction |
| 942 ## - TIPO DE MATERIAL | |
| Tipo de Material | Libro - Monografía |
| Material oculto del Opac | Material perdido | Material dañado | Material No para préstamo | Colección | Sede donde se ingresó el material | Sede a donde pertenece el ejemplar/Copia | Estantería donde se ubica | Fecha de Adquisición o compra | Préstamos Koha (veces que fue prestado) | Clasificación | Número de inventario (Código de barras) | Última vez visto (Koha) | Fecha del precio de reemplazo | Tipo de Material |
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| General | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. | Sala Ingles | 09/10/2023 | FIC VAS | 064921 | 09/10/2023 | 09/10/2023 | Fiction / Ficción |
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