by Raj Kamal Jha · Picador · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780330392341
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«The Blue Bedspread» is the contemporary fiction novel by Raj Kamal Jha, published by Picador in paperback (240 pages, in English).
A lone man, on a night in Calcutta, writes for a newborn baby whose mother has just died in childbirth. While the girl sleeps on a blue bedspread, he tells her the story of her mother and the childhood they shared, amid dark secrets, domestic violence, and a thread of love and hope.
First novel by Raj Kamal Jha; shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award in 1999 and winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2000 for best first novel from South Asia and Europe.
For readers of literary fiction, contemporary Indian narrative, and book clubs interested in family stories and secrets of the past.
Raj Kamal Jha is an Indian newspaper editor and novelist writing in English. He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express. He has written six novels that have been translated into more than 12 languages. His journalism and fiction have won national and international awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize; Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize; Tata Literature Live! Book of The Year; the International Press Institute India Award for Excellence in Journalism; and the Mumbai Press Club Journalist of the Year award. In September 2021, Jha was awarded Editor of The Year by the India Chapter of the International Advertising Association Annual Leadership Awards.
