The blue bedspread
By: Raj Kamal Jha
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2000
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780330373869
Subjects: Social conditions; Urban poor; Families; Fiction
Description: "A midnight phone call awakens a man to inform him that his sister has died in childbirth. He is told he must keep the orphaned baby girl overnight, until her new, adopting parents can collect her. Over the course of that hot night in Calcutta, the man hurriedly writes stories to the baby sleeping on a blue bedspread in the next room: stories of the family she was born into, stories of the mother she will never know."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: 1999.