The Patient In Bed Number 12

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.