Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir (Record no. 49210)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780008165628
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 741.5 SAJ
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Sajad, Malik
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Munnu: A Boy From Kashmir
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Fourth Estate
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2015
Place of publication, distribution, etc London
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 348
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Seven-year-old Munnu is growing up in Indian-administered Kashmir. Life revolves around his family: Mama, Papa, sister Shahnaz, brothers Adil and Akhtar and, his favourite, older brother Bilal. It also revolves around Munnu's two favourite things - sugar and drawing.But Munnu's is a childhood experienced against the backdrop of conflict. Bilal's classmates are crossing over into the Pakistan-administered portion of Kashmir to be trained to resist the 'occupation'; Papa and Bilal are regularly taken by the military to identification parades where informers will point out 'terrorists'; Munnu's school is closed; close neighbours are killed and the homes of Kashmiri Hindu families lie abandoned, as once close, mixed communities have ruptured under the pressure of Kashmir's divisions.Munnu is an amazingly personal insight into everyday life in Kashmir. Closely based on Malik Sajad's own childhood and experiences, it is a beautiful, evocatively drawn graphic novel that questions every aspect of the Kashmir situation - the faults and responsibilities of every side, the history of the region, the role of Britain and the West, the possibilities for the future. It opens up the story of this contested and conflicted land, while also giving a brilliantly close, funny and warm-hearted portrait of a boy's childhood and coming-of-age.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Graphic novels
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element India
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Koha item type Book
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