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020 | _a9780143416333 | ||
082 | _a894.81263 BEN-G | ||
100 | _a Benyamin | ||
245 | _aGoat Days (Novel ) | ||
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_aNew Delhi _bPenguin Books _c2012 |
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300 | _a 255 pages ; 20 cm | ||
520 | _aNajeeb\'s dream is to work in the Gulf and earn enough money to send back home. He achieves it only to be propelled by a series of incidents into a slave -like existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert.Benyamin\'s wry telling transforms this bitter comedy into a tale of loneliness and alientation. | ||
650 | _a Slaves -- Fiction. Human rights -- Saudi Arabia -- Fiction. Human rights. | ||
700 | _a Translated from the Malayalam by Joseph Koyippally. | ||
942 | _cBK |