The blue bedspread
a novel
by Raj Kamal Jha
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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. (Description from Goodreads)
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Death, Brothers and sisters, Family, Mothers, Family violence, Fiction, Sexually abused children, Social conditions, Sisters, Urban poor, Mortality, Poor families, Families, Fiction, sagas, Brothers and sisters, fiction, India, fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, general, Siblings, fictionPlaces
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The blue bedspread: a novel
1999, Random House, Random House Publishing Group
in English
- 1st US ed
0375503129 9780375503122
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