An edition of The blue bedspread (1999)

The blue bedspread

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1st Harvest ed.
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An edition of The blue bedspread (1999)

The blue bedspread

a novel

1st Harvest ed.
  • 2 Want to read

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. (Description from Goodreads)

Publish Date
Publisher
Harcourt
Language
English
Pages
217

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Edition Availability
Cover of: The blue bedspread
The blue bedspread: a novel
2001, Harcourt
in English - 1st Harvest ed.
Cover of: The Blue Bedspread
The Blue Bedspread: A Novel
April 4, 2000, Random House
in English
Cover of: The blue bedspread
The blue bedspread: a novel
1999, Random House, Random House Publishing Group
in English - 1st US ed
Cover of: The blue bedspread
The blue bedspread
1999, Picador, Pan Macmillan
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
San Diego
Series
A Harvest book
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR9499.3.J49 B57 2001, PR9499.3.J49B57 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 217 p. ;
Number of pages
217

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL6788948M
Internet Archive
bluebedspreadnov00jhar
ISBN 10
0156010887
LCCN
00048217
OCLC/WorldCat
45087375
Library Thing
208870
Goodreads
101933

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