The Blue Bedspread
Shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award
Winner of the Best First Book Commonwealth Writers’ Award for the Eurasia region
The Blue Bedspread is a searingly honest story about the love and hope that can survive in the midst of family violence.
In a house on a Calcutta street, lit by the half-light of a yellow street lamp, lies a baby, one day old, wrapped in its hospital towel.
In the next room sits a man, all alone, writing. Who is this man, at once frightened and determined? What is he writing? Where has the baby come from and where will it go?
Tonight, these questions will be answered when the man unravels the dark secrets he has carried all his life.
‘A ghostly, elliptical piece of prose of quite magical quality, which tells the story of one man’s reconciliation with his past … It is undeniably powerful’ — Evening Standard
‘This is an incantatory, audacious book, notable for great moments of poignancy’ — Guardian
ISBN: 9781035004836 | Published: 8 November 2022 | Paperback | 240 pages
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