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The Blue Bedspread
de Raj Kamal Jha
- Usado
- Aceptable
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Aceptable/Fine
- Librería
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Picador, 1999. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9" by 5.5". None. A fine, signed copy of Raj Kamal Jha's award winning novel, 'The Blue Bedspread'. Regarded as a coming of age of the Indian novel, this tale is left to readers to formulate their own theories and connections. Signed by the author, to the title page 'Best wishes, Raj Kamal Jha Hay '99'. 'The Blue Bedspread' won the Commonwealth Writers prize for Best First Book in 2000 and was a finalist for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the Guardian First book Award. The flyleaf states 'In prose that is breathtaking and precise, Raj Kamal Jha discovers love and hope behind the hidden violence and twisted eroticism of an old city. The Blue Bedspread is a profoundly moving story of people who, through their imagination, find the escape they so desperately seek'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with the unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, in an excellent condition. Dustwrapper is excellent with minor shelfwear. Author's inscription to the title page. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright, with slight fading to the extremities. Very clean pages. Fine
Sinopsis
In 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.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 687L28
- Título
- The Blue Bedspread
- Autor
- Raj Kamal Jha
- Ilustrador
- None
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Picador
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Tamaño
- 9" by 5.5"
- Palabras clave
- Novel First Edition Commonwealth Prize First Edition
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
Sobre Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Dustwrapper
- Also known as book jacket, dust cover, or dust wrapper, a dust jacket is a protective and decorative cover for a book that is...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
