Selfless act of breathing / (Record no. 91578)
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| fixed length control field | 240118b2021 |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780349702063 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Fiction BOL-J |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bola, J J |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Selfless act of breathing / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | J J Bola |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | London |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Dialogue Books |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2021 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 292p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | A heartbreaking, lyrical story for all of those who have fantasised about escaping their daily lives and starting over.<br/><br/>Michael Kabongo is a British-Congolese teacher living in London on the cusp of two identities. On paper, he seems to have it all - he's loved by his students, popular with his colleagues, and enjoys the pride of his mother who emigrated from the Congo. But behind closed doors, he's been struggling with the overwhelming sense that he can't improve the injustices he sees - from his efforts to change the lives of his students, to his attempts to transcend the violence that marginalises young Black men around the world.<br/><br/>Then Michael suffers a devastating loss, and his life is thrown into a tailspin. As he struggles to find a way forward, memories of his fathers' violent death, the weight of being a refugee, and an increasing sense of dread threaten everything he's worked so hard to achieve.<br/><br/>Longing to escape the shadows in his mind and start anew, Michael decides to spontaneously pack up and go to America, the mythical 'land of the free,' where he imagines everything will be better, easier - a place where he can become someone new, someone without a past filled with pain. On this transformative journey, Michael travels from New York City to San Francisco, partying with new friends, sparking fleeting romances, and splurging on big adventures.<br/><br/>In the back of his mind, Michael has a plan: follow his dreams until the money in his bank account runs out, and then he will decide if his life is truly worth living...<br/><br/>Written in spellbinding prose, with Bola's trademark, magnetic storytelling, The Selfless Act of Breathing is a heart-wrenching and deeply emotional novel about mental health, masculinity and the power of love. Perfect for fans of Rainbow Milk and the works of Derek Owusu.<br/> |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Fiction |
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| Dewey Decimal Classification | FIC | BITS Pilani Hyderabad | Fiction "1st Floor" | 18/01/2024 | Fiction BOL-J | 48113 | 13/07/2024 | Books |