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02652cam a2200385ui 4500 |
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ocm1085635750 |
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OCoLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20200821113920.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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191127s2019 nyua 000 1 eng d |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
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| LC control number |
2019457524 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780316412407 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0316412406 |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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| System control number |
(OCoLC)1085635750 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
YDX |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
| Description conventions |
rda |
| Transcribing agency |
DLC |
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WEX |
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CPL |
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VMI |
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OCLCF |
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UTW |
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YDX |
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OCLCO |
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MiTN |
| 042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
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| Authentication code |
lccopycat |
| 043 ## - GEOGRAPHIC AREA CODE |
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| Geographic area code |
f-nr--- |
| 050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
PR9387.9. O2756 |
| Item number |
O73 2019c |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Obioma, Chigozie, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1986- |
| 245 13 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
An orchestra of minorities : |
| Remainder of title |
a novel / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Chigozie Obioma. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First Back Bay trade paperback edition. |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Back Bay Books, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
448 pages : |
| Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
| Dimensions |
21 cm. |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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| Media type term |
unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia. |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Set on the outskirts of Umuahia, Nigeria, and narrated by a chi, or guardian spirit, An Orchestra of Minorities tells the story of Chinonso, a young poultry farmer whose soul is ignited when one night he sees a woman attempting to jump from a highway bridge. Horrified by her recklessness, Chinonso joins her on the roadside and hurls two of his prized chickens into the water below to express the severity of such a fall. The woman, Ndali, is stopped in her tracks. Bonded by this incident on the bridge, Chinonso and Ndali fall in love. But Ndali is from a wealthy family and struggles to imagine a future near a chicken coop. When her family objects to the union because Chinonso is uneducated, he sells most of his possessions to attend college in Cyprus. But when he arrives, he discovers that there is no place a the school for him and that he has been utterly duped by the young Nigerian who made the arrangements. Penniless, homeless, and furious at a world that continues to relegate him to the sidelines, Chinonso gets further away from his dream, from Ndali, and from the farm he called home. Spanning continents, traversing the earth and cosmic spaces, and told by a narrator who has lived for hundreds of years, this novel is a contemporary twist on Homer's Odyssey. Writing in the mythic style of the Igbo literary tradition, Chigozie Obioma weaves a heart-wrenching epic about destiny and determination. -- Back cover. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Farmers |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
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Man-woman relationships |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Betrayal |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Social classes |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Nigeria |
| Form subdivision |
Fiction. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Magic realist fiction. |
| Source of term |
lcgft. |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Romance fiction. |
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lcgft. |
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| Genre/form data or focus term |
Bildungsromans. |
| Source of term |
lcgft. |