Nireeswaran / (Record no. 90683)
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| fixed length control field | 01690nam a22001697a 4500 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 230210b2022 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780670096558 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Fiction JAM-V |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | James, V. J. |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Nireeswaran / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | V. J. James |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | India |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Penguin Random House |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 301 p. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE | |
| Price type code | INR |
| Price amount | 599.00 |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | A compelling narrative of shifting faiths and displaced gods. As realities and fantasies disentangle there appears in the nether regions an un-god, Nireeswaran, with no halo. A mind-boggling work from a master novelist." M. MUKUNDAN, recipient of JCB Prize 2021. Is it possible for society to exist without religion? Nireeswaran, the most celebrated of Malayalam novelist V. J. James' works, uses incisive humor and satire to question blind faith and give an insight into what true spirituality is. Three atheists, Antony, Sahir, and Bhaskaran, embark on an elaborate prank to establish that God is nothing but a superstition. They install a mutilated idol of Nireeswaran, literally anti-god, to show people how hollow their religion is. Their plan starts turning awry when miracles start being attributed to Nireeswaran-a man waking up from coma after twenty-four years, a jobless man ineligible for government employment getting a contract, a prostitute turning into a saint-leading hordes to turn up to worship the fake deity. The trio is put in a quandary. Will they fight their own creation? Is their intractable minds an indication that atheism is a religion in itself? Belief and disbelief, it is possible, are two sides of the same coin. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Fiction |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ministhy S. |
| Relator term | Translated from the Malayalam |
| 952 ## - LOCATION AND ITEM INFORMATION (KOHA) | |
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| Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | FIC | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | Fiction "1st Floor" | 10/02/2023 | Fiction JAM-V | 46902 | 13/07/2024 | 10/02/2023 | Books |