We Need to Talk About Kevin

2003 novel by Lionel Shriver
VisualArtwork literary_work Q2107910
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We Need to Talk About Kevin

Summary

We Need to Talk About Kevin is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (834 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • We Need to Talk About Kevin authored Lionel Shriver[3].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's instance of is recorded as literary work[4].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's publisher is recorded as Counterpoint Press[5].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's genre is recorded as thriller[6].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's genre is recorded as epistolary novel[7].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's genre is recorded as crime literature[8].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 6473151474874700490000[9].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's language of work or name is recorded as English[10].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's country of origin is recorded as United States[11].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's publication date is recorded as +2003-04-14T00:00:00Z[12].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cp2dy[13].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's Open Library ID is recorded as OL17885502W[14].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's Internet Archive ID is recorded as weneedtotalkabou00lion_1[15].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's has edition or translation is recorded as We Need to Talk About Kevin[16].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's narrative location is recorded as New York[17].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's narrative location is recorded as United States[18].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's LibraryThing work ID is recorded as 8282[19].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'We Need to Talk About Kevin'}[20].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's BBC Things ID is recorded as f13be67b-f88b-4188-aa77-da59ed2aff90[21].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's derivative work is recorded as We Need to Talk About Kevin[22].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's OCLC work ID is recorded as 791884[23].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's Goodreads work ID is recorded as 3106720[24].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's Book Marks ID is recorded as we-need-to-talk-about-kevin[25].
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin's Penguin Random House work ID is recorded as 674783[26].

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Works and Contributions

We Need to Talk About Kevin authored Lionel Shriver[3].

Why It Matters

We Need to Talk About Kevin ranks in the top 2% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (834 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
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  11. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . archive.org. Retrieved . archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] . BBC Things. wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Goodreads. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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