The Blue Bedspread
by Jha, Raj Kamal
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375503129
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503122
- Seller
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Seattle, Washington, United States
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About This Item
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
- Arundel Books of Seattle (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00520685
- Title
- The Blue Bedspread
- Author
- Jha, Raj Kamal
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0375503129
- ISBN 13
- 9780375503122
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- WHAR.430 INDIA FICTION GENERAL BROTHERS SISTERS Jha, Raj Kamal Indian Literature 20th Century English Language First Book, , , , , , ,
Terms of Sale
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7-day return only if not as described (you must notify us immediately on upon receipt of any problem). We pack carefully.
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