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    612-822-4611

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The Blue Bedspread

The Blue Bedspread

Jha, Raj Kamal

Paperback

Series: Harvest Book

General FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 0156010887
ISBN13: 9780156010887
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: Apr 6 2001
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.59 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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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