The Blue Bedspread
by Raj Kamal Jha | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0156010887 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0156010887 Global Overview for this book
2 journalers for this copy...
From a library sale. Don't plan to read it, but I know it's on several bookcrossers' wish lists.
Publisher's Description: 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.
3/14/05 - Mailed to Zmrzlina who accepted it from BookRelay.com
Publisher's Description: 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.
3/14/05 - Mailed to Zmrzlina who accepted it from BookRelay.com
Thank you! I will post again when I've read this.
