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The Blue Bedspread Paperback - 2001
by Raj Kamal Jha
A man claims his dead sister's baby on a steamy night in Calcutta and spends a tortured evening penning stories for her, telling of his own anguished childhood. Through these stories he hopes to find his place in the world, and create a better one for the orphaned infant. Jha's poetic prose echoes the loneliness of the human condition.
Summary
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.
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.
Details
- Title The Blue Bedspread
- Author Raj Kamal Jha
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: First
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, San Diego
- Date 2001-04-06
- ISBN 9780156010887 / 0156010887
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.59 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.50 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Brothers and sisters
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00048217
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Citations
- New York Times, 04/08/2001, Page 28
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