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Ernakulam Public Library Fiction | Fiction | F JHA/PAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | E199978 |
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F JEO/GO GOOD SON | F JER/TH THREE MEN IN A BOAT | F JES/SC SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS : Every Mother has a bad day | F JHA/PAT PATIENT IN BED NUMBER 12 | F JHA/TH THREE CONTINENTS | F JHU/WH WHEREABOUTS : Novel | F JIA NOODLE MAKER |
A hate video goes viral. A dying father sets out in search of the living. A daughter risks all to follow her head and heart.
The Patient in Bed Number 12 is a remarkable novel framed as a confession from parent to child, from child to parent. In this profoundly moving exchange, secrets long buried tumble out, mysterious and dreamlike: a grieving mother finds solace in a newspaper photograph; a ghost comes to life in an abandoned fridge; children fill empty jars with the night’s darkness; a young couple plan how to seek permission for their love; and three men with a phone camera turn a family’s world upside down.
Just as one breath holds in its end the beginning of another, each story’s close becomes the opening for the next—linking fragile strands of individual lives into a tapestry of hope and heartbreak. From Raj Kamal Jha, India’s ‘novelist of the newsroom,’ comes a searing investigation of the pulse of today’s India: a billion-plus young people, restless and ambitious, trying to shed the burdens of their past—and yet haunted by ghosts of mistrust and hate.
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