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RAILSONG (Record no. 197129)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9789361313479
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 RAH/RA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Rahul Bhattacharya
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title RAILSONG
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT
Edition statement 1
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Bloomsbury
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2025
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Size of unit 402
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note agnificent KAMILA SHAMSIE<br/><br/>Majestic yet profoundly tender MEGHA MAJUMDAR<br/><br/>A breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the story of an individual coming of age amid the social and political upheavals of twentieth-century India.<br/><br/>In a newly independent India charged with national vigour, Charu, the motherless daughter of a railway worker, pines for freedom from the shackles of her impoverishment and meagre prospects. As diesel engines replace steam and the calamitous churn of drought, famine and a great strike engulfs her town, Charu dares to imagine a different future for herself. She boards a train and flees westwards, leaving behind the oppressive domesticity of her childhood for the alluring modernity, and apparent opportunities, of Bombay.<br/><br/>Unfazed by the everyday discriminations around her, she becomes an unlikely hero: a railway woman and census enumerator who keeps her heart open-sometimes guilelessly-to her nations vast possibility. Sweeping, elegiac and at times wonderfully comic, Railsong is a powerful portrait of grit, optimism and the force of character that enables one remarkable woman to live on her own terms in a country full of contradictions.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Novel
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Fiction
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type Lending
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Collection code Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Source of acquisition Cost, normal purchase price Inventory number Total Checkouts Full call number Barcode Date last seen Date last checked out Price effective from Koha item type
    Dewey Decimal Classification     Fiction Ernakulam Public Library Ernakulam Public Library Fiction 2025-11-24 Purchased 799.00 KC-25-CRB-4683,2025/11/24 4 F RAH/RA E1102311 2026-07-02 2026-06-14 2025-11-24 Lending