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There was and there was not : (Record no. 565614)

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000 -LEADER
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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
control field	001080530
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field	AM-YEHGA
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field	20230515160855.0
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field	150520s2014 nyub\|\|\|gr\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|\|0\|eng\|d
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9780805097627
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency	AM-YeHGA
Transcribing agency	AM-YeHGA
041 0# - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title	eng
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Toumani, Meline
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	There was and there was not :
Remainder of title	A journey through hate and possibility in Turkey, Armenia, and beyond /
Statement of responsibility, etc.	Meline Toumani.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	Metropolitan Books ;
--	Henry Holt and Company,
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	2014.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent	x, 286 p. :
Other physical details	map ;
Dimensions	24 cm.
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	With hard- and supercover
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note	For Mom and Dad
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note	Includes bibliographical references (pages [285]-286).
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note	Cont.: Pt. I. Diaspora : When we talk about what happened ; Summer camp, Franklin, Massachusetts, 1989 ; "How did they kill your grandparents?" ; A real Armenian ; False assumptions ; "With this madness, what art could there be?" -- Pt. II. Alternate realities : "So you are a bit mixed up, now" ; "Armenians are killers of children" ; January 19, 2007 -- Pt. III. Turkey : Paradoxes ; Language ; Knowing and not knowing ; How to be a Turk ; Official history -- Pt. IV. Armenia : Country on maps ; Hello, homeland! ; Reunions -- Pt. V. Power : The narcissism of small similarities ; Excess baggage ; Soccer diplomacy ; Terms.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	"A young Armenian-American goes to Turkey in a 'love thine enemy' experiment that becomes a transformative reflection on how we use--and abuse--our personal histories. Meline Toumani grew up in a close-knit Armenian community in New Jersey where Turkish restaurants were shunned and products made in Turkey were boycotted. The source of this enmity was the Armenian genocide of 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turkish government, and Turkey's refusal to acknowledge it. A century onward, Armenian and Turkish lobbies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to convince governments, courts and scholars of their clashing versions of history. Frustrated by her community's all-consuming campaigns for genocide recognition, Toumani leaves a promising job at The New York Times and moves to Istanbul. Instead of demonizing Turks, she sets out to understand them, and in a series of extraordinary encounters over the course of four years, she tries to talk about the Armenian issue, finding her way into conversations that are taboo and sometimes illegal. Along the way, we get a snapshot of Turkish society in the throes of change, and an intimate portrait of a writer coming to terms with the issues that drove her halfway across the world. In this far-reaching quest, told with eloquence and power, Toumani probes universal questions: how to belong to a community without conforming to it, how to acknowledge a tragedy without exploiting it, and most importantly how to remember a genocide without perpetuating the kind of hatred that gave rise to it in the first place."--Publisher information.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Armenian Americans
General subdivision	Ethnic identity
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Koha item type	Գրքեր/Books
Suppress in OPAC	No

Holdings
Withdrawn status	Lost status	Damaged status	Not for loan	Collection code	Home library	Current library	Date acquired	Total Checkouts	Full call number	Barcode	Date last seen	Koha item type	Public note
				General	Fundamental Scientific Library	Fundamental Scientific Library	11/04/2023		И II/117612	FL0677091	11/04/2023	Գրքեր/Books	30 Days Loan