Gone Away : (Record no. 59129)
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fixed length control field | 770617s2020 enka 000 0 eng |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
ISBN | 9788194472957 (pbk) |
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
080 ## - UNIVERSAL DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
Universal Decimal Classification number | 910.4 |
Item number | MOR |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
Personal name | Moraes, Dom |
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
Title | Gone Away : |
Sub Title | an Indian Journal |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
Place of publication | New Delhi |
Name of publisher | Speaking Tiger |
Year of publication | 2020 |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
Number of Pages | xi, 210p. |
Other physical details | illus. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
Summary, etc | <br/><br/>One of the most unconventional travelogues ever written, Gone Away covers three months of Dom Moraes’ life spent in the subcontinent at the time of the Chinese incursions on the Tibetan border in 1959. In that short time, a remarkable number of memorable things happened to him, some of them the sort of fantastic situations that could only enmesh a poet, perhaps only a young poet—a visit to a speak-easy in Bombay; an interview with Nehru and an hour spent closeted with the Dalai Lama in Delhi; and a meeting with the great Nepalese poet, Devkota, whom he found already laid out to die by the side of the holy river Basumati. After a short stay in Calcutta, where he tried, with limited success, to investigate the lives of prostitutes, he went up to Sikkim, the north-eastern border state into which no visiting writer had been allowed for almost a year. Having made his way by jeep right up to the frontier, he ran into a Chinese detachment and was shot at, but escaped to safety.<br/><br/>Full of humour, felicity of phrase and oddity of behaviour, Gone Away communicates the special excitement of the traveller on every page. Unforgettably funny is the account of the Sikkimese soccer match played in an impenetrable mist and involving the loss of several footballs kicked over an adjoining cliff. Yet, though humour and irreverence prevail through the pages, this is a book which catches and holds the mood of modern India and illuminates as much as it entertains.<br/> |
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Topical Term | Travel |
690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element | General |
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Koha item type | BOOKS |
Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Current library | Shelving location | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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IMSc Library | Second floor, Rack No: 59, Shelf No: 5 | 910.4 MOR | 76287 | BOOKS |