The Book of Sleep/ (Record no. 6395)
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| fixed length control field | 01352nam a2200181Ia 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | 6395 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 260202s9999 xx 000 0 und d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780857429537 |
| 245 #4 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | The Book of Sleep/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Haytham Al-Wardany |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London; NY; Calcutta; |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Seagull Books; |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2020 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 162p; |
| Dimensions | 20x13cm |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | The Arab List |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | First published in Arabic as Kitab Al Nawm by Haytham Al Wardany, by Al Karma Publishers, Cairo 2017. ------What is sleep? How can this most unproductive of human states—metaphorically called death’s shadow or considered the very pinnacle of indolence—be envisioned as action and agency? And what do we become in sleep? What happens to the waking selves we understand ourselves to be? Written in the spring of 2013, as the Egyptian government of President Mohammed Morsi was unraveling in the face of widespread protests, The Book of Sleep is a landmark in contemporary Arabic literature. Drawing on the devices and forms of poetry, philosophical reflection, political analysis, and storytelling, this genre-defying work presents us with an assemblage of fragments that combine and recombine, circling around their central theme but refusing to fall into its gravity. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | English |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Literature- Prose |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9172 |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Egypt |
| -- | Najd |
| -- | Algeria |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9166 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Language and Literature | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | PJ7501-8517 230.654 | 6395 | 02/02/2026 | 02/02/2026 | Book |