The blue bedspread
By: Raj Kamal Jha.
Publisher: Picador; Pan Macmillan
Published: 1999
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Brothers and sisters -- Fiction.; Sexually abused children -- Fiction.; Mothers -- Mortality -- Fiction.; Sisters -- Death -- Fiction.; Family violence -- Fiction.; Poor families -- Fiction.; Calcutta (India) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: The story opens as an old man is asked to collect his sister's baby from the hospital in Calcutta where his sister has just died. The last time he saw her was 15 years earlier. In the pages that follow their pasts are unravelled - stories of violence and love, horror and hope.
Notes: Novel.