A simple Habana melody (from when the world was good) (Record no. 17700)
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| fixed length control field | 01969nam a22002657a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | OSt |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20231109145937.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 230106s2002 nyu 000 1 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 0060175699 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Transcribing agency | QCPL |
| Description conventions | rda |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | Fic |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hijuelos, Oscar |
| Relator term | author |
| 245 12 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | A simple Habana melody (from when the world was good) |
| Remainder of title | : a novel |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | / Oscar Hijuelos |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | First edition |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | HarperCollinsPublishers, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | [2002] |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 342 pages |
| 336 ## - Content Type | |
| Source | rdacontent |
| Content type term | text |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Source | rdamedia |
| Media type term | unmediated |
| 338 ## - Carrier Type | |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| Carrier type term | volume |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | It is 1947 and Israel Levis, a Cuban composer whose life had once been a dream of music, love and sadness, is returning to Habana, Cuba, from Spain, where he has just recovered from the physical and spiritual malaise resulting from his experiences in Paris, then Buchenwald, during the Nazi occupation of France. (A devout Catholic, Levis had been mistakenly identified as a Jew because of his name.) When Levis arrives back in Habana, after an absence of many years, his mind is reeling with beautiful memories of his life in Cuba and in Paris before the war, a life of pleasure and excitement that he owes, in part, to an unrequited, nearly "chivalrous" romance with a certain Rita Valladares, a singer for whom Levis had written his most famous song, "Rosas Puras," or "Pretty Roses." This 1928 composition becomes the most famous rumba in the world and changes both American and European tastes in music and dance - forever; and it is the song, symbolic of the composer's love for Rita Valladares, that sets Levis's life in Europe in motion. This is at once a love story - for art, family and country -- as well as a portrait of Habana at the turn of the last century, when "the world was good." |
| 651 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Cuba |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 1933-1959 |
| Form subdivision | Fiction |
| 655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM | |
| Source of term | lcgft |
| 9 (RLIN) | 10520 |
| Genre/form data or focus term | Historical fiction |
| 690 ## - LOCAL SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM (OCLC, RLIN) | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Historical fiction |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Dewey Decimal Classification |
| Koha item type | Book |
| Lost status | Library use only | Collection code | Permanent Location | Current Location | Shelving location | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Full call number | Barcode | Koha item type |
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| Fiction | Project 8 Branch | Project 8 Branch | Fiction Area | 11/07/2022 | Donation | Fic H639s 2002 | 124522d | Book |