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The Blue Notebook

THE BLUE NOTEBOOK James A. Levine's first novel tells the haunting story of Batuk a 15-year old girl whose family living in the Indian countryside is in such poverty and debt that she is sold into sexual slavery and lives in a cage on the streets of Mumbai. Batuk is just one of many girls forced into prostitution but against the odds she manages to put pen to paper writing stories of her life that help her transcend and make a certain sense of her daily existence. The novel is powerfully told in Batuk's voice through the words she writes in her journal. Searing moving and surprisingly hopeful THE BLUE NOTEBOOK explores how people in the most difficult of circumstances can use stories to understand and give meaning to their lives.

  • Classification : General & Literary Fiction
  • Pub Date : JUL 9, 2009
  • Imprint : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • Page Extent : 224
  • Binding : PB
  • ISBN : 9780297855613
  • Price : INR 899
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