The blue bedspread
Subtitle: a novel
By: Raj Kamal Jha
Edition: 1st US ed
Publisher: Random House; Random House Publishing Group
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Family -- India -- Fiction; Urban poor -- India -- Fiction; India -- Social conditions -- Fiction
Genres: 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.

Painting half-remembered scenes, he flits between past and present, recounting tales of the shared childhood of a boy and his sister, who muffled their fears in the blueness of that very same bedspread. As the hours pass, the man gradually divulges a layered and transfixing confession of the darkest of family secrets."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "Originally published in Great Britain by Macmillan Publishers Limited, London, in 1999"--T.p. verso