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The Blue Bedspread
by Raj Kamal Jha
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Picador, 1999. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9" by 5.5". None. A fine, signed copy of Raj Kamal Jha's award winning novel, 'The Blue Bedspread'. Regarded as a coming of age of the Indian novel, this tale is left to readers to formulate their own theories and connections. Signed by the author, to the title page 'Best wishes, Raj Kamal Jha Hay '99'. 'The Blue Bedspread' won the Commonwealth Writers prize for Best First Book in 2000 and was a finalist for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Guardian First book Award. The flyleaf states 'In prose that is breathtaking and precise, Raj Kamal Jha discovers love and hope behind the hidden violence and twisted eroticism of an old city. The Blue Bedspread is a profoundly moving story of people who, through their imagination, find the escape they so desperately seek'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, in an excellent condition. Dustwrapper is excellent with minor shelfwear. Author's inscription to the title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with slight fading to the extremities. Very clean pages. Fine
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
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 687L28
- Title
- The Blue Bedspread
- Author
- Raj Kamal Jha
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Picador
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 9" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- Novel First Edition Commonwealth Prize First Edition
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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