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02309aam a2200349 i 4500 001 BABF8E8A047611EB89AE83802EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201002011536 008 190929t20202017nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781948226905 (softcover) 020 $a 1948226901 035 $a (OCoLC)1121082600 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NTG $d MZG $d OCLCO $d YU6 $d OCLCO $d TOH $d IW5 $d SILO 043 $a a-ii--- 050 4 $a FICTION KAY 082 04 $a 894.8/14371 $2 23 100 1 $a KaÌykinÌ£i, Jayanta, $d 1955- $e author. 245 10 $a No presents please : $b Mumbai stories / $c Jayant Kaikini ; translated from the Kannada by Tejaswini Niranjana. 260 $a New York : $b Catapult, $c [2020] 300 $a 267 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Frist published in India in 2017 by Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers"--Title page verso. 505 0 $a Interval -- City without mirrors -- Unframed -- Opera house -- A spare pair of legs -- Inside the inner room -- Dagadu Parab's wedding horse -- Gateway -- Crescent moon -- Toofan mail -- Water -- Partner -- Mogri's World -- A truck full of chrysanthemums -- Tick tick friend -- No presents please. 520 $a "Jayant Kaikini's gaze takes in the people in the corners of Mumbai--a bus driver who, denied vacation time, steals the bus to travel home; a slum dweller who catches cats and sells them for pharmaceutical testing; a father at his wit's end who takes his mischievous son to a reform institution. In this metropolis, those who seek find epiphanies in dark movie theaters, the jostle of local trains, and even in roadside keychains and lost thermos flasks. Here, in the shade of an unfinished overpass, a factory-worker and her boyfriend browse wedding invitations bearing wealthy couples' affectations--"no presents please"--and look once more at what they own"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a KaÌykinÌ£i, Jayanta, $d 1955- $v Translations into English. 651 0 $a Mumbai (India) $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Short stories. $2 lcgft 700 1 $a Niranjana, Tejaswini, $d 1958- $e translator. 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117014604.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20201218010023.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20201002012308.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=BABF8E8A047611EB89AE83802EECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search