The Blue Bedspread
Jha, Raj Kamal
ISBN 10: 0156010887 ISBN 13: 9780156010887
Published by Harper Perennial, 2001
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In the middle of a steamy Calcutta night the phone rings. An unnamed man in a city of millions answers to a voice telling him that his long-lost sister is dead. He must go to the hospital to identify the body and claim his sister's orphaned newborn daughter until she can be adopted the next day.
During the long hot night, the baby sleeps on a bedspread that used to be indigo blue, but has faded to almost white. As the child lies where the man and his sister used to sleep as children, he quietly writes stories for her, telling of his own childhood full of intensity, anguish, and poetry. He doesn't know his place in the world, but with the help of these stories, the baby someday might.
Raj Kamal Jha's ethereal, poetic prose echoes the loneliness of the human condition.
About the Author: RAJ KAMAL JHA's novel The Blue Bedspread was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Jha is Chief Editor of The Indian Express.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Blue Bedspread
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Publication Date: 2001
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very Good