The Book of Khalid (Record no. 29184)
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| fixed length control field | 01827nam a22001577a 4500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 9781612190877 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 813.52 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Ameen Rihani |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Book of Khalid |
| Statement of responsibility | Ameen Rihani |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York |
| Name of publisher | Melville House Publishing |
| Year of publication | 2012 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 325 Pages |
| Other physical details | 20x13 cm |
| -- | PB |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Illustrated by Kahlill Gibran |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | This long-awaited re-publication of the first Arab-American novel'inspiration for Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet'deals with Arab/American relations, religious conflict and the American immigrant experience. Told with great good humor and worldly compassion, and with illustrations by Kahlil Gibran, The Book of Khalid recounts the adventures of two young men, Khalid and Shakib, who leave Lebanon for the United States to seek their fortune in turn-of-thecentury New York. Together, they face all the difficulties of poor immigrants'the passage by ship, admittance through Ellis Island and the rough immigrant life. Khalid, always the dreamer, tries to participate in the political and cultural life of the teeming city'to often humiliating and comic result. Tiring of their sojourn, he convinces Shakib they should return to Lebanon. But their heads are now full of New World ideas. And Khalid, trying to improve his brethren, turns his understanding of Western thought into a call for political progress, and religious unity and tolerance in the Arab world. A call that has him, accidentally, almost founding a new religion'and almost becoming its first martyr, when his ideas incite the faithful to riot. Playing with classical Arabic literary forms, as well as Western literary conventions, Ameen Rihani's The Book of Khalid is a unique contribution to American and World literature. From the Trade Paperback edition. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | New York (State)--New York |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Cost, normal purchase price | Full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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| Garrison Public Library Multan | Garrison Public Library Multan | General Stacks | 2017-04-13 | CRV/GPLM/12/2016 | 876.00 | 813.52 A498B 2012 | 35193 | Books |