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THE BLUE BEDSPREAD
by Jha, Raj Kamal
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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About This Item
London: Picador, 1999. Pp. [viii]+228; dust wrapper; edges of leaves lightly foxed; Picador, London, 1999. First edition. *The author's first novel, signed by him (dated June '99) on the title page.
Synopsis
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 117588
- Title
- THE BLUE BEDSPREAD
- Author
- Jha, Raj Kamal
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
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