The Blue Bedspread - Hardcover

Jha, Raj Kamal

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375503129 ISBN 13: 9780375503122

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2000

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Book by Jha Raj Kamal

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A Calcutta man whose sister has just died during childbirth keeps the child overnight awaiting the arrival of her adoptive parents, and as the evening progresses, he scrawls stories of her biological family on a blue bedspread. A first novel. 20,000 first printing.

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hone call awakens a man to inform him that his sister has died in childbirth. He is told he must keep the orphaned baby girl overnight, until her new, adopting parents can collect her. Over the course of that hot night in Calcutta, the man hurriedly writes stories to the baby sleeping on a blue bedspread in the next room: stories of the family she was born into, stories of the mother she will never know. Painting half-remembered scenes, he flits between past and present, recounting tales of the shared childhood of a boy and his sister who muffled their fears in the blueness of that very same bedspread. As the hours pass, the man gradually divulges a layered and transfixing confession of the darkest of family secrets.

Described by John Fowles as "remarkable, almost a coming-of-age of the Indian novel," this powerful, penetrating debut by a young New Delhi journalist has already been recognized as an international literary event. In prose that is breathtaking and precise, Raj Kama

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375503129
• ISBN 13: 9780375503122
• Einband: Tapa dura