The book censor's library
"The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish--allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary c...
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New York, NY :
Restless Books,
2024.
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| 001 | on1385296788 | ||
| 003 | OCoLC | ||
| 005 | 20241009120500.0 | ||
| 008 | 230623s2024 nyua 0|| 0 eng d | ||
| 010 | |a 2023945244 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781632063342 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)1385296788 | ||
| 040 | |a YDX |b eng |e rda |c YDX |d BDX |d OCLCO |d NYP |d HBP | ||
| 082 | 0 | 4 | |a 892.7/37 |2 23 |
| 099 | |a FIC ISA | ||
| 100 | 1 | |a ʻĪsá, Buthaynah. |4 aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The book censor's library / |c Bothayna El Essa ; translated from the Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman & Sawad Hussain. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Restless Books, |c 2024. | |
| 300 | |a 261 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 18 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 336 | |a still image |b sti |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a First published by Takween Publishing House (Kuwait) and ASPArabic (Beirut) 2019. | ||
| 520 | |a "The new book censor hasn't slept soundly in weeks. By day he combs through manuscripts at a government office, looking for anything that would make a book unfit to publish--allusions to queerness, unapproved religions, any mention of life before the Revolution. By night the characters of literary classics crowd his dreams, and pilfered novels pile up in the house he shares with his wife and daughter. As the siren song of forbidden reading continues to beckon, he descends into a netherworld of resistance fighters, undercover booksellers, and outlaw librarians trying to save their history and culture."--Amazon. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Libraries |x Censorship |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Challenged books |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Intellectual freedom |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Books and reading |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Satire. | |
| 655 | 0 | |a Dystopian fiction. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Abdelrahman, Ranya. |4 trl | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Hussain, Sawad. |4 trl | |
| 949 | |a CCL |b CadFIC |c F Al-Essa |d i |e 39241503843554 |f 784898 |g loc |j 11/22/2024 | ||
| 999 | |a 494671 | ||
