London: Picador, 1999. A near Fine unmarked copy (Fine apart from one page with crease to top corner) with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. First edition, first printing. In a house on a narrow street in Calcutta, lit by the half light of a yellow street lamp, lies a baby one day old, wrapped in its hospital towel. In the next room sits a man, all alone writing. Who is this man, at once frightened and determined? What is he writing? Where has the baby come from and where will it go? Tonight, these questions will be answered when the man unravels the dark secrets he has carried all his life. D4B. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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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.

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Bookseller: Goldring Books (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 007734
Title: The Blue Bedspread
Author: Jha, Raj Kamal
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: First Edition
ISBN 10: 0330373854
ISBN 13: 9780330373852
Publisher: Picador
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1999
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
Keywords: INDIAN AUTHORS, CALCUTTA FICTION
Bookseller catalogs: Foreign Authors;

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