num_pages: 228
description: In a house on a Calcutta street, lit by the half-light of a yellow street lamp, lies a baby, one day old, wrapped in its hospital towel. In the next room sits a man, all alone, writing. Who is this man, at once frightened and determined? What is he writing? Where has the baby come from and where will it go? Tonight, these questions will be answered when the man unravels the dark secrets he has carried all his life.
language: English
title: The blue bedspread
titlecomplete: The blue bedspread
genres: Fiction, Indian Literature, Asia, India, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 993
places: Calcutta
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Guardian First Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Commonwealth Writers' Prize
category: Best First Book in South Asia and Europe
publisher: Picador