The blue bedspread: a novel
(Book)
Author:
Published:
New York : Random House, [1999].
Format:
Book
Edition:
1st US ed.
Physical Desc:
xii, 209 pages ; 22 cm
Status:
Summit-Silver Fiction
JHA
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. Described by John Fowles as "remarkable, almost a coming-of-age of the Indian novel," this powerful, penetrating debut by a young New Delhi journalist has already been recognized as an international literary event. In prose that is breathtaking and precise, Raj Kamal Jha discovers the hidden violence and twisted eroticism of an exotic, overcrowded old city. Unlike the India captured in the exotic prose of Salman Rushdie and Arundhati Roy, Jha writes in a spare, straightforward style that has prompted comparisons to American realists like Raymond Carver and Don DeLillo. The Blue Bedspread is a searingly honest story about the love and hope that can survive in the midst of family violence. It is a first novel of extraordinary power and humanity.
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Language:
English
ISBN:
0375503129
Notes
General Note
"Originally published in Great Britain by Macmillan Publishers Limited, London, in 1999"--T.p. verso.
Citations
APA Citation (style guide)
Jha, R. K. (1999). The blue bedspread: a novel. 1st US ed. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Jha, Raj Kamal, 1966-. 1999. The Blue Bedspread: A Novel. New York, Random House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Jha, Raj Kamal, 1966-, The Blue Bedspread: A Novel. New York, Random House, 1999.
MLA Citation (style guide)Jha, Raj Kamal. The Blue Bedspread: A Novel. 1st US ed. New York, Random House, 1999.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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