The Blue Bedspread - Couverture souple

Jha, Raj Kamal

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156010887 ISBN 13 : 9780156010887

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin, 2009

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

RAJ KAMAL JHA's novel The Blue Bedspread was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Jha is Chief Editor of The Indian Express.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0156010887
• ISBN 13: 9780156010887
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
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