The Face: Strangers on a Pier (Record no. 5529)
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| fixed length control field | 01531nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 5529 |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20250108181718.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 250108b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781632060457 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | Booku |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 929 AW |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Tash Aw |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Face: Strangers on a Pier |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | LA Times Book Prize The Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose<br/><br/>“Tash Aw’s The Face , so wise and so well done, made me wish it were much longer than it is.” —Chimamanda Adichie, The Guardian 's Best Books of 2016<br/><br/>From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and The Harmony Silk Factory comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage.<br/><br/>In The Strangers on a Pier , acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers’ treacherous boat journeys to Malaysia from mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity night clubs, and voices in a dizzying variety of languages, dialects, and slangs, to create an intricate and astoundingly vivid portrait of a place caught between the fast-approaching future and a past that won’t let go.<br/> |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Suppress in OPAC | No |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Copy number | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | Junior | Booku Library Services | Booku Library Services | 08/01/2025 | Donation | 929 AW | 9781632060457 | 08/01/2025 | 1 | 08/01/2025 | Book |