English, August: an Indian story / (Record no. 109183)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20230111150309.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 90906860 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780571151011 (hbk.) |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.914 CHA |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Chatterjee, Upamanyu, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | English, August: an Indian story / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Upamanyu Chatterjee |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Faber and Faber |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1988 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 291 p. ; |
| Dimensions | 21 cm. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Gratis<br/>GBP 11.95/- |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Agastya Sen, the hero of English, August, is a child of the Indian elite. His father is the governor of Bengal. His friends go to Yale and Harvard. He himself has secured a position in the most prestigious and exclusive of Indian government agencies, the IAS. Agastya's first assignment is to the town of Madna, buried deep in the provinces. There he meets a range of eccentrics worthy of a novel by Evelyn Waugh. Agastya himself smokes a lot of pot and drinks a lot of beer, finds ingenious excuses to shirk work, loses himself in sexual fantasies about his boss's wife, and makes caustic asides to coworkers and friends. And yet he is as impatient with his own restlessness as he is with anything else. Agastya's effort to figure out a place in the world is faltering and fraught with comic missteps. Chatterjee's novel, an Indian Catcher in the Rye with a wild humor and lyricism that are all its own, is at once spiritual quest and a comic revue. It offers a glimpse an Indian reality that proves no less compelling than the magic realism of Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Young men |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Civil service |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | City and town life |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | India |
| Form subdivision | Fiction. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Humorous fiction. |
| Source of term | gsafd |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Bildungsromans. |
| Source of term | gsafd |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | SIAS Collection | H.T. Parekh Library | H.T. Parekh Library | Meenakshi Mukherjee Books | 27/07/2021 | 823.914 CHA | K4933 | 27/07/2021 | 27/07/2021 | Books |