MARC details
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02464nam a2200289 4500 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9788196937447 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
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| Terms of availability |
Purchased |
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Mathrubhumi Books, Kaloor |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
070.92 |
| Item number |
IRA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Ira Mathur |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
LOVE THE DARK DAYS |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New Delhi |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Speaking Tiger Books LLP |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2024 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Size of unit |
246 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
‘Ira Mathur takes the reader deep into the darkest spaces of her family history. Relentlessly honest… A window into a world rich in history that few know about. A compelling read.’—Shrabani Basu, author of Victoria & Abdul<br/><br/>Set in India, England and the Caribbean from the 1970s to 2017, Love the Dark Days is a remarkable memoir that follows the story of a girl, Poppet, born of mixed Hindu-Muslim parentage, from post-Independence India to postcolonial Trinidad.<br/><br/>Growing up in Bangalore with her mercurial maternal grandmother, Burrimummy, member of an aristocratic Muslim family whose history is one of having colluded with the British, Poppet unconsciously imbibes Burrimummy’s prejudices of class and race. As the darker-skinned child in her family, uncertain of her place in her glamorous mother’s affections or her grandmother’s, she feels she does not belong. The feeling of unbelonging is repeated when she migrates with her parents to multicultural Trinidad, where she encounters Indian people, several generations away from India, who have a very different sense of themselves—they are critical of what they perceive as her upper-class airs and graces. She marries into one such family, earning both love and pain. Lonely and confused, she begins writing about her experiences as a way of trying to make sense of them. In her darkest hour, she meets the Caribbean poet Derek Walcott, Nobel Laureate, who encourages her to leave the past behind and reinvent herself.<br/>Raw, unflinching, but not without threads of humour, Love the Dark Days is an intricate tapestry about class, race, gender—and the love-hate web of family—that has at its centre a woman’s struggle for identity, love and emotional stability. |
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Memoir |
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Information |
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Journalism And Publishing |
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Journalism And Publishing |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Biography And History |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Biographies |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Journalist Biography |
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Lending |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |