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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: lost civilization of Suolucidir
  name:
    name part: Daitch, Susan
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Adventure fiction.
  genre: Satire.
  genre: Fiction.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2016
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 310 pages ; 21 cm
  abstract: "A series of archeological expeditions unfolds through time, each one looking for the ruins of a fabled underground city-state that once flourished in a remote province near the border of present-day Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Sealed off for centuries by seismic activity, Suolucidir beckons with the promise of plunder and the glory of discovery, fantasies as varied as the imaginations of her aspiring modern-day conquerors. As the tumult of the twentieth century's great wars, imperial land grabs and anti-colonial revolutions swirl across its barren, deserted landscape, the ancient city remains entombed below the surface of the earth. A succession of adventurers, speculators and unsavory characters arrive in search of their prize, be it archeological treasure, oil, or evidence of crimes and punishments. Intrigue, conspiracies, and counter-plots abound, and contemporary events interfere with each expedition, whether in the form of the Axis advance, British Petroleum, or the Revolutionary Guards. People disappear, relics are stolen, and the city closes in upon itself once more. A satiric, post-colonial adventure story of mythic proportions, The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir takes place against a background of actual events, in a part of the world with a particular historical relationship to Russia and the West. But though we are treated to visual "evidence" of its actual existence, Suolucidir remains a mystery, perhaps an invention of those who seek it, a place where history and identity are subject to revision, and the boundaries between East and West are anything but solid, reliable, or predictable"--
  table of contents: First collapse -- Silent, deserted, fallen cities -- The book of smoke -- Hilliard and Congreaves.
  note: Susan Daitch.
  subject:
    topic: Archaeological expeditions
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: Extinct cities
    genre: Fiction
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Literary
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Historical
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Action & Adventure
  subject:
    topic: FICTION
    topic: Jewish
  subject:
    topic: Archaeological expeditions
  subject:
    topic: Extinct cities
  classification: PS3554.A33 L67 2016
  classification: 813/.54
  classification: FIC019000 FIC014000 FIC002000 FIC046000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Lost civilization of Suolucidir
    name:
      name part: Daitch, Susan, author.
    origin info:
      publisher: San Francisco : City Lights Publishers, 2016
    identifier: (DLC) 2016003408
  identifier: 9780872867000
  identifier: 0872867005
  identifier: 2015049535
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 160114
    record change date: 20170927100224.0
    record identifier: in00003717797
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng