The Wish Maker (Record no. 2142)
| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 01273nam a22001337a 4500 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 823.92 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Sethi, Ali |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Wish Maker |
| Statement of responsibility | Ali Sethi |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Riverhead Books |
| Year of publication | 2009 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 420 Pages |
| Other physical details | 24x16 cm |
| -- | HB |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | The Wish Maker is a coming-of-age story set in 1990s Pakistan, a story about two children and the family they grow up in, the people and the places they come to know and love. It's a story about Lahore, the city, seen gradually through the decades; a story about Benazir Bhutto and the heady promise of democracy, and the recurring nightmare of military intervention; a story about Bollywood movie stars and American TV shows and the different kinds of forbidden love they inspire. But the novel is also intended to be a meditation on the individual consciousness, a journey into the soul's capacity to know other souls, to recognize itself in others and to grant others the validity it grants itself, which is the validity of desire, of wanting more and better things all the time. This, the capacity for wish-making, for ascribing insatiability and incompletion to other people's ideas of themselves is the central concern of the book."--Ali Sethi. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Manners and customs |
| -- | Women |
| -- | Pakistan |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Fiction | Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | Fiction | 2016-11-30 | MSL | 451.50 | 823.92 S495W 2009 | 17624 | Books |