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020			_a9780156010887
037			_cGifted _nN.K Kannan Menon Foundation
041			_aEnglish
082			_aF _bRAJ/BL
100			_aRaj Kamal Jha
245			_aBLUE BEDSPREAD
250			_a1
260			_aFlorida _bRandom House Trade Publishing _c1966
300			_g217
500			_aIn the middle of a steamy Calcutta night the phone rings. An unnamed man in a city of millions answers to a voice telling him that his long-lost sister is dead. He must go to the hospital to identify the body and claim his sister's orphaned newborn daughter until she can be adopted the next day. During the long hot night, the baby sleeps on a bedspread that used to be indigo blue, but has faded to almost white. As the child lies where the man and his sister used to sleep as children, he quietly writes stories for her, telling of his own childhood full of intensity, anguish, and poetry. He doesn't know his place in the world, but with the help of these stories, the baby someday might. Raj Kamal Jha's ethereal, poetic prose echoes the loneliness of the human condition.
650			_aCulcutta(India) - Fiction
650			_aBrothers and sister's - Fiction
650			_aSexually abused children - Fiction
650			_aMothers - Mortality - Fiction
650			_aSisters- Death Fiction
650			_aFamily violence - Fiction
650			_aPoor families - Fiction
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999			_c194934 _d194934