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"Described by John Fowles as "remarkable, almost a coming of age of the Indian novel, " this powerful, penetrating debut work by a young Calcutta journalist is about the love and hope that can survive in the midst of family violence."
""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."@en
"Un homme veille près de sa nièce à Calcutta, en attendant de décider ce qu'il veut en faire. La mère est morte la veille. Il écrit pour le nouveau-né des souvenirs de famille. Sa soeur et lui sur le couvre-lit, les colères de son père... La peur, l'amour, la violence, l'inceste rôdent. Peu à peu se dévoile ce qui s'est passé, l'étendue de l'horreur racontée d'un ton si neutre et serein."
"Een oude man schrijft zijn herinneringen aan zijn jeugd in Calcutta op als hij een nacht past op de pasgeboren baby van zijn overleden zuster."
"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."@en

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"Belletristische Darstellung"
"Electronic books"@en
"Translations"@he
"Translations"
"Domestic fiction"@en
"Domestic fiction"
"Fiction"@he
"Fiction"@en
"Fiction"

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"Blue Bedspread A Novel"@en
"Kisui ha-miṭah ha-kaḥol"
"The blue bedspread"
"The blue bedspread"@en
"The blue bedspread : a novel"
"De blauwe beddensprei : roman"
"The blue bedspread : [a novel]"
"La coperta azzurra"@en
"La coperta azzurra"@it
"La coperta azzurra"
"Le couvre-lit bleu : roman"
"<&gt"@he
"Det blå sengetæppe"@da
"The blue bedspread a novel"@en
"Das blaue Tuch Roman"
"Das blaue Tuch : Roman"
"Hē nostalgia echei chrōma galazio"
"Juego nocturno"@es
"Juego nocturno"
"Sininen päiväpeite : romaani"@fi
"כיסוי המיטה הכחול"
"Le couvre-lit bleu"

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