MARC details
| 000 -LEADER |
|---|
| fixed length control field |
02294nam a22002657a 4500 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
|---|
| control field |
20241105150108.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
|---|
| fixed length control field |
241105b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
|---|
| International Standard Book Number |
9780857427922 |
| 037 ## - SOURCE OF ACQUISITION |
|---|
| Terms of availability |
Purchased |
| Note |
Prism Books,Kadavanthra |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE |
|---|
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title |
English |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
|---|
| Classification number |
F |
| Item number |
AND/HA |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
|---|
| Personal name |
Andrea Tompa |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
|---|
| Title |
HANGMAN'S HOUSE |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
|---|
| Edition statement |
1 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
|---|
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Culcutta |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Seagull |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
|---|
| Size of unit |
340 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT |
|---|
| Series statement |
Hungarian List |
| Volume/sequential designation |
Ottile Mulzet (ed.) |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
|---|
| General note |
Originally Published as "A hóhér háza" by Andrea Tompa. <br/>Set in the 1970s and ’80s, The Hangman’s House narrates the life and times of a Hungarian family in Romania. Those were extraordinary times of oppression, poverty and hopelessness, and Andrea Tompa’s latest novel depicts everyday life under the brutal communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu, referred to by the narrator as an unnamed “one-eared hangman.” Ceaușescu is omnipresent throughout the story—in portraits in classrooms and schoolbooks, in the empty food stores, in TV programs, in obligatory Party demonstrations. Most insidiously, he is present in the dreams and nightmares of common people, who, in this cruel period of history, become cruel to one another, just like the dictator.<br/> <br/>Our narrator, a teenage “Girl,” observes life through tangled, almost interminable sentences, trying to understand and process the many questions in her life: why her family is falling apart; why her mother has three jobs; why her father becomes an alcoholic; why her grandmother dreams of “Hungarian times”; and, most troubling, why there is persecution all around. Brutal though the times are, Girl’s narration is far from a mere indictment. It is suffused with love, tenderness and irony.<br/> <br/>Written by a woman and featuring a young woman narrator, The Hangman's House focuses intently on how women play the principal roles in holding together the resilient fabric of society. Evocative of the celebrated wry humor that distinguishes the best of Hungarian literature, Tompa’s novel is a tour de force that will introduce a brilliant writer to English-language readers. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
|---|
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Hungarian fiction |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
|---|
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Novel |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
|---|
| Personal name |
Bernard Adams (tr.) |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
|---|
| Koha item type |
Lending |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
|---|
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
|---|
| Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |